Can Home Ed Groups Resume?

With schools returning, many home educators are beginning to ask whether they can resume their normal home ed meetups.

No, home ed groups are not schools and cannot resume if their numbers and venue exceed the current limits. 

However, you may begin any activity that lies within the current restrictions on gatherings.

Why

Schools involve the same set of children gathering at the same venue each day. In terms of virus risk, one infected person could infect their class. By contrast, home educators attend a variety of activities during the week with different sets of people. Home educators are highly social. From a virus-risk perspective, our community is like the complicated Venn diagram pictured.