If you're keeping your children home this year because you just can't deal with more quarantines, an online elementary school program may be more helpful than straight homeschooling. The program gives your children a place in a class with others and lets them interact with more people each day. When choosing a school, you definitely want to look at class size, how gifted students are treated, and so on, but you also want to look at practical issues that may have little to do with the teacher and student interaction.