Flexi-schooling is about parents taking responsbility for learning of most of the time one day in a week. It can be of help for different reasons:

1. help in (to big) urban schools to support with individual guidance,
2. in schools with a small account of children to manage the finances,
3. in the future in the UK when there will be 21% more children for primary schools (with endangering diminishing of teacher corps in numbers), 
4. as adaptation to more flexible and itinerant working lives
5. and first of all for finding new ways of school parent partnerships. 

In the UK they are experimenting in different schools with it.

In a big urban primary school, flexi-schooling lets parents feel that their children are not just swallowed up in a crowd like on the Shacklewell Primary. But it has also proved a success in a tiny village primary that once had so few pupils it nearly disappeared. Hollinsclough is a Church of England primary school in a pretty Peak District village of the same name, about four miles south of Buxton. A few years ago, it had just five pupils on its roll. Then, at the start of the last school year, it introduced flexi-schooling and witnessed a surge of pent-up demand from parents who were educating their children at home but wanted to bolster this with one or two days of school.

For many of the new pupils, school had been an unhappy experience and their parents had started teaching them at home because they were refusing to go.

The headteacher, Janette Mountford-Lees, says: "For many of the people who flexi-school it is a last resort. Their children were having such a bad experience at school – they were emotionally bruised by their educational experience. They like the small-school ethos. They want to home educate, but just want a bit of guidance so their children aren't missing out."

While a government-commissioned review of home education in 2009 urged local authorities to "extend and make available the opportunities of flexi-schooling", many parents find it hard to persuade headteachers to let them do it, Mountford-Lees says.

The school now has 30 children on its roll, of whom only 12 are full-time. The rest attend between one day and three days a week. The school gains financially because each of its flexi-schooled children is funded as if they were full-time.

It has not just revived the school's fortunes but helped ensure the future of the village – which has no shop or pub. "Once the school closes, the village starts to die," the head says.

Could flexi-schooling spread? An Ofsted report on home education, published last year, found a reluctance by schools to offer part-time tuition. Heads were worried about the impact on their schools' attendance figures and the setting of unmanageable precedents for other parents.

At a time when school trips are in decline – teachers blame increasing paperwork and tighter budgets for fewer opportunities to take children out – it's a chance to learn in a different way.

For now, though, it is an experiment that only the most dedicated will embark on. As Scott says: "It is certainly not the easy option for parents and you need to be committed to your child's educational journey to take it on – so you're not going to be sticking your child in front of the TV when they are not at school."

to read the full Guardian article about flexischooling looke here.