Abstract
The crisis of publiceducation caused by school lockdowns during Covid-19 pandemic caused cultural shock butalso opened the space for alternative modes of education such as homeschooling. Legitimacy of homeschooling and its popularity among parents and policymakers has already been increasing in the last decades.
The aim of the study is to identify motives for homeschooling by a research design based on in-depth interviews with (grand)parents of homeschooled children. The results of analysis distinguished two types of motives: motives related to dissatisfaction of families with the performance of school system and motivesrelated to family values and life-style.