-“When I was considering homeschooling my second grader, I polled 12 K-2 teachers about the number of quality learning hours in a school day. In my area, they had the kids for six hours each day, five days a week. How much of that time was actually spent learning? At this academically blue ribbon, top-of-the-nation school, the resounding response was that teachers experienced an average of 45 minutes of quality teaching time each day. Those minutes were spread throughout all their class subjects……. Those quality 45 minutes were spent teaching to a class (with an average of just under two dozen students per class) -not one-on-one.”
-Linda Lane, Teaching Hours?, California Homeschooler, December, 2004.
