LOL I gotcha there. My youngest takes forever to do anything. If I recorded those kind of hours, I'd have some splainin' to do ! Why does it take your kid 3 hours to do a math worksheet?! I dunno, but I'd like to!
Hahahahahaha. Nice. Yeah, I understand that completely. Today we logged an actual 1 1/2 hours for math. He did LP Self Test 1. That's it. Period. An hour and a half for one single page of REVIEW stuff. lol
My son is brilliant in math but just average in other subjects. He started complaining a LOT about math last year when I finally figured out he's bored. He's doing Horizons which is spiral. The problem is he would master it on the first or second time around and then he would have to do it over and over again. I finally started modifying his math (tell him do 4 out of 15 problems for example) and running through 2 or even 3 lessons a day. He's liking it much better! If I could only get him to love writing like that! LOL!
Isn't it a great feeling when you figure out the problem AND the solution!? I wish Eli was like that. Really, it's just that book work isn't his strong suit. We do a lot of projects, which he loves. He retains a lot more that way.
Another way to look at the hours if you don't have to list them day by day and turn in a journal, is to write that they completed at least 600 hours in the core classes. You could also say they completed more than the required without writing they did 2000 hours or something like that. Of course, I have never had to report hours, so I don't know what format you have to do it in.
We actually don't have to report hours. Just record them. And we have to keep a portfolio. It's kind of screwy, but no one ever sees our records unless judge orders it. Which means it's only an issue if there are legal things going on. So being turned in for being truant isn't good enough. The school system can't ask for your records. But if you're turned in for child abuse then the judge might ask to see them. So all this discussion is usually moot because it's so completely rare that anyone has to show their logs. But you of course have to keep them up to date just in case. There are no guidelines, though about how you have to keep the logs. What I mean is, there is nothing that says you have to show daily logs or weekly or whatever. I tend to keep track daily, then total weekly. It's just the easiest way for me.
