Homeschooling parents 'spend 15 hours a week' teaching

More than a third of working week

Adam Saville
clock • 2 min read

Two in five parents working from home finding stress of homeschooling difficult, survey shows

Parents juggling work alongside homeschooling are spending on average 10 hours a week catching up on work after their children have gone to bed, research by Canada Life has revealed. According to the survey, two fifths (39%) of working UK adults are teaching their children while balancing full time jobs. On average, 15 hours a week (three hours a day) are being spent as teacher (41%), leaving 17 hours and a half (three and a half hours a day) for work during office hours (47%). The research, which included 2000 working adults with children of school age, found homeschooling partners t...

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