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home-school

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home·school or home-school  (hmskl)
v. home·schooled or home-schooled, home·school·ing or home-school·ling, home·schools or home-schools
v.tr.
To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home.
v.intr.
To provide educational instruction in a homeschool.
n.
A school operated outside established educational institutions, especially in a home.
homeschooler n.
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Verb1.home-school - educate (one's children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school; "The parents are home-schooling their daughter"
school - educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"


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Catherine Milstead, a mother of five, enrolled her oldest daughter in an ecumenical Christian home-school program when her youngest daughter was a baby.
School for home-schoolers by Mass, Warren / The New American
Still, despite the declining stigma of learning at home, some home-school parents face ridicule from relatives who don't think they are up to the task.
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Another effort of those opposed to public schools is the home-school movement, which includes many people who are neither religious nor right wing.
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