All of this will help your child move towards independence and taking ownership of their education.
If you’ve been homeschooling this whole time, this will occur more naturally. If you’re pulling your child from school, you may need to help them with this more.
Starting in about 5th grade, I start moving my children towards independence. I may have them do a few math problems on their own or read a book on their own. By middle school, I assign them “homework” or things they can do without me, like answering workbook questions or doing their entire math assignment.
By the time highschool rolls around, they are used to doing more school on their own. I have always had littles as well, so getting my highschoolers independent has been a necessary goal for me.
If you are all new to homeschooling, you could start by doing all of their school with them, making sure they are doing it, keeping tabs on how they’re doing, what they’re doing. As you find your rhythm and your child starts to see what this is all about, you can quickly move through the stages to get them more independent.
So instead of taking years, you could take months. My opinion is that this independence is important. They need to be able to have ownership over their education.
As adults, that’s what we have to do. Even just the research you’re doing for homeschooling, is taking ownership over educating yourself on a new topic.
Your child needs to be able to do that in their adulthood, as well. You can teach them this skill now, in your home.
Whether they go to college or not, you will have served them well by teaching them to take some responsibility for their own learning.