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Homeschooling: An Argument for Year Round School

Posted 09 October 2010 | By | Categories: Education | 25 Comments

Sometimes, less is more.  One area where that’s particularly true is with homeschooling.  I’m talking about the real time our kids spend learning and the educational return on that time investment, not the money we spend on books, materials and activities.  It can be convincingly argued that we homeschoolers actually spend more money on our kids’ [...]

Losing the School Groove: Year Round Education

Posted 29 December 2009 | By | Categories: Education | 18 Comments

  A huge advantage that homeschoolers have over their public school peers is the relative lack of vacation time.  We don’t stop learning during summer, spring break or most other holidays.  The result is that we don’t slip backwards in our learning and we don’t spend time catching up to where we left off.  I [...]