The organization of a homeschooling environment is based on the organizational skills of the parent who will homeschool the child. Having the child at home all day for school can create more than the normal mess in the home by increasing materials from learning activities, and additional dishes from breakfast, lunch and snacks. If the parent is disorganized, the child will be attempting to learn in a disorganized environment that could inhibit learning.
Homeschooling environments do not allow a child to socialize with a large number of children. This makes it hard to organize sports-based activities for the child. It is possible to join a homeschooling group that gets together from time to time for sports activities, but this isn't the same as in a traditional school. Children can't go out and play sports with others on a daily basis; the activities have to be scheduled and arranged, requiring more work.
The cost of homeschooling can be rather high, especially if you are already paying for public school. If you are a home owner and pay property taxes, technically you are paying for school. The costs of public education are subsidized by the property taxes paid by those in the community. In effect you are paying for a service you do not use. When homeschooling you must purchase all of your own materials, such as textbooks, CDs, computers and musical instruments. Additional learning opportunities such as field trips must be paid for out of your pocket as well.
When homeschooling, the child is only exposed to a limited number of people. The teacher is most likely a family relative or could be a close family friend who is homeschooling several children. The number of children in a homeschooling environment is not as large as in a traditional school. This limits the chance for the child to develop social skills and to interact with other children. It also limits the variety of knowledge the child can receive from other adults, and the ability to feel comfortable when meeting strangers.
As a homeschooling teacher, a parent must be prepared to teach the child every day. As a result the parent will devote much of the evening doing preparatory work for the next day's class. This can involve reading over educational material, organizing activities for crafts, contacting other parents that do homeschooling for social activities, as well as parenting duties not related to homeschooling. This can be a large burden on the parent who is doing the homeschooling and make it difficult for that parent to have a much of a social life during the week. That demand on the parent's time can extend into the weekend as well.