In home-schooling, parents become the teachers and must find or create lesson plans and, if required, do their own evaluations and record-keeping. Across Canada, there is no mandatory testing of home-schooled children, though Quebec has plans to introduce mandatory exams in the coming years. Both Alberta and Quebec have a monitoring system in place to check on home-schooled children, but most provinces do not. (Declan Finn/CBC)For children in traditional school, the average school day is usually about six and a half hours. The academic success of home-schooled children is a topic of much debate and conflicting research.

Source: CBC News August 26, 2020 07:52 UTC