Someone asked on a message board about year round home schooling of high schoolers and this was my reply -

I have always preferred year round home schooling and I school year round even though we have started high school. It works fine for requirements and credits because I still have a "school year", it starts August 1st and goes until July 31st. So yes, the courses must be completed before the end of the school year, we just utilize most of the weeks of the year. For the sake of helping my children's breaks mesh with others we have full (9ish-2ish) days 36 weeks and half days (9ish-10,11,12ish?) most other days. How I worked this was separating the subjects into the skill (math, grammar) and content (history, science, literature, etc.) areas of learning. Skill areas are the ones done on a 36 week schedule and content areas are done year-round. So we are never really on a break unless we are out of town or have company staying for a visit. The content areas are typically more reading/discussing/hand's on type activities so if we are home for the day I see no reason we can't read or do a project for an hour or two in the mornings. I think it really takes the pressure off. To be honest I don't see the point in cramming everything in 36 weeks when there are 52 weeks in a year. If you took no breaks you could almost cut your home school day in half. I stress out if school takes until evening and utilizing more weeks shortens the day to day work load. Just thinking about doing everything in only 36 weeks gives me burnout.  This works best for us.

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Posted by eclecticeducation

We don't usually homeschool year round, but out of necessary, we are trying it this year. I like how you have it arranged. My oldest son loves history and science so it would not be a struggle to do some through the year. My little one is 4, so he just does school when he feels like it anyways. Btw... some of my font turned color on me today. Something funky is going on!!

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Posted by Michelle32

Yup, we do it this way too! :)
It allows for breaks when the need arises...without any guilt and there's no falling "behind".

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Posted by geeterbug5

I started year round because I felt my kids were behind for what they should know at their age then one day I told myself they are where they should be and there is no reason to stress and take our time learning so they will know what they know. I despise struggling with school work so I make sure the kids know we can take our time so we get it.
I do get critisizim from one of my family members who thinks it is unfair for my kids not to get a brake from school work and I tell her often "well they are my kids hunny so I deal with that".

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