The Lazy Genius Way to Homeschool

Mom Delights Homemaking and Homeschooling · Feb 18, 2026 · 19m

Did you know that the first compulsory education law, passed in 1852 in Massachusetts, only required children from the ages of eight to fourteen to be in school for 12 weeks in the year, with only six of these being sequential?

Did you also know that students of that time enjoyed a literacy rate far above that of our modern day?

We’ve been trained to believe educating takes six to eight concentrated hours of academics every day for five days every week for 40 weeks out of the year.

That’s not true at all. No school in the world is actively “schooling” for eight hours each day.

They are mostly…