Ok i read a thread not to long ago about home schooling year round and i'm considering it. i thought of many positives about it but the other half was against it. i asked him if he could give me 2 reasons against it and he could not. (he laughed and told me he was content with whatever i decided). so here is my question. Are there any downsides to it? for those that didn't choose to do so have you looked back and wished you would have? My kids are young now so if i start now they would just accept it, but if i wait a few years i'm sure they would fight me on it. Thanks
We will continue certain subjects - math, some language arts.... and that's about it. No downside really - for us we take it slower because we have so many other things to do besides school! We started in the summer actually after school ended (gave them a 2 week break then started 1 subject per day)..... it worked well!
I homeschool my dd7 year round. It works for us and she doesnt know anything different. My dd13 is in public school now but the 3 years that I did homeschool her we went with the school year. She would have hated schooling year round so we just kept her schedule as that of her ps friends.
We love it! The only down sides I can think of are these: When other kids are out, it's hard for DS to have to wait to play Franklin Covey doesn't make a planner that covers August to July which is how our schedule goes. That's it so far. I love that whenever I start feeling burned out it's time for a week off to recharge, and we won't have to reteach things he's forgotten over a long break. It's wonderful not being tied to a traditional schedule, and not having three months of "I'm bored..."
My kids aren't aware there is any other way! We school 3 months on and 1 month off. Which gives you just enough vacation time but not too much where you get out of the homeschooling groove. Plus you get the main vacation months off August for summer, December for Christmas, and April for spring.
We do it year round and have seen absolutely NO downside at all to it. We take off days as we want to and are still well ahead of where they'd be if they were in the school system. We rarely feel any overload in terms of school because we take every Friday off, and then we sometimes take additional days as well.
I tried to year-round school for about three years, but couldn't. We were too much interrupted by camp, the kids going with g'ma for a week, Bible School, family vacation that can't be taken during the school year, 'cause Daddy is a teacher, and simply the fact that Daddy is home all day and it throws our schedule out of whack!
Here's the original thread. I received lots of helpful information http://homeschoolspot.com/showthread.php?t=20862
The only downside is my own public school conditioning that tells me that summer is for slacking. We are interrupted more during the summer with friends who are now available to play during the day and with camps and vacations, but we just make allowances for that and keep going. I do it mainly to have time off during the year. I can't keep up with homeschooling two and chasing a toddler for nine months straight; I need one day a week and a whole week every two months to catch up. My kids enjoy the flexibility it gives us, so they don't mind.
We love it here. When we take extended time off it's very hard to get back into a routine, so taking summers off is out of the question for us. We just keep plugging along, no matter the season. It means we can take off days whenever we want to throughout the year, rather than having to stay on task fall, winter, and spring so that things are done by the time summer rolls around.
Even when my kids were in traditional public school, we still worked them over the summer. I plan on workign them again this summer too, even though we'll be doing some extensive travel. Then again, that's also why I plan on continuing "school" since they will have those unique opportunities.
You know, we don't completely stop over the summer. I take so long to go through a history book that we continue reading, or I have one that MUST be finished with a certain subject before we start up in the fall, or some such. Rachael's really good about planning out how to fit her studies around the rest of her summer schedule. But this is REALLY scaled back!
We school year round but summer is pretty laid back we use the summer to go on cool field trips like the zoo. We read alot in the summer too. This year I will be doing some more math with my DD since we are switching curriculums and quite frankly needs more practice . As far as downsides I don't see any with year round schooling. It keeps them geared up and ready to learn at every opportunity
thanks all! I think i'm going to give it a try. while they are young lol I appreciate all the great advice!
