homeschool

• home school, home-school

homeschool (third-person singular simple present homeschools, present participle homeschooling, simple past and past participle homeschooled)

1. (transitive) To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in lieu of sending them to a public school or private educational institution.

   I chose to homeschool my children.

   • 2007 October 30, Terry Cettina, “How to even the score on housework, kid duty”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Both work -- Jenny as a freelance writer from home, Marc full-time-plus as a civil engineer with a long commute. Jenny also takes care of their four sons, ages 20 months to 9 years, and homeschools the two oldest.

   • 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     At the same time, said Jen Reyneri, who has homeschooled two sons (ages 16 and 12), each family should embrace the opportunity to create a rhythm of life that works for them.

2. (intransitive) To be educated at home.

   I only started regular school when I was ten; before that I homeschooled.

homeschool (countable and uncountable, plural homeschools)

1. A school within a private domestic place, rather than in a public facility or private institution.
   • 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     All traditional school programs incorporate some sort of recess or outdoor time, and a homeschool schedule should be no different.

   • 2025 July 23, Andrew Lawrence, “Malcolm-Jamal Warner was a TV big brother and an off-screen gentleman. He’ll be forever missed”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 July 2025:

     He was so insanely proud of the job his wife and daughter were doing in homeschool, studying ancient Egypt and other Black history.

2. (US, dated) Synonym of boarding school.