home-school

See also: home school and homeschool

English

Verb

home-school (third-person singular simple present home-schools, present participle home-schooling, simple past and past participle home-schooled)

  1. Alternative form of homeschool.
    • 1984 April 6, Jim Campbell, “School at home: State allows an experiment”, in Bremerton Sun, volume 84, number 314, Bremerton, Wash., →OCLC, page 13, column 6:
      One CCSS participant is Norma Reece, who home-schooled her second- and fourth-grade sons last year.
    • 1984 November 6, Amanda Covarrubias, “When the classroom is your living room […]”, in The Tribune, metro final edition, volume 111, number 311, Oakland, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-11, column 1:
      Beth DeRoos, who home-schooled her son for 17 years, said the method isn’t for everybody.
    • 2007 November 14, Matt Garfield, “Sanford seeks local ‘pearls of wisdom’ […]”, in The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C., →OCLC, page 1A, column 6:
      The governor got some advice in that effort from Lora Matthews of Rock Hill, who home-schools her two sons, Pierce and Ian, and wonders why her family doesn’t get a tax break.
    • 2020 May 2, Barbara Ellen, “Home schooling is tough, but parents are doing a fraction of teachers' jobs”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 May 2020:
      As the government considers a phased reopening of schools, let’s hear it for parents who’ve toughed it out home-schooling their children.

Noun

home-school (countable and uncountable, plural home-schools)

  1. Alternative form of homeschool.
    • 1884 August 18, “Instruction”, in New-York Tribune, volume XLIV, number 13,791, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 3:
      FORT HILL, a home-school for boys.
    • 1891 March 21, “Educational”, in The Times, number 33,278, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 6:
      A CAMBRIDGE M.A. has THREE VACANCIES in his most successful HOME-SCHOOL for BOYS, standing in its own grounds.
    • 1924 August 9, “Saturday Morning Cooking Lesson Is ‘Pie’ for the Children […]”, in The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, home edition, volume XXXV, number 192, Winnipeg, Man., →OCLC, Fiction and Features section, page 3, column 4:
      HERE are seen some members of the Children’s Home family. Their merry faces give some idea of how happy they are in that big home-school.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.