How and Why to Switch Homeschool Curriculum Mid-Year?
How and Why to Switch Homeschool Curriculum Mid-Year?
Is it okay to switch curriculum halfway through the year? YES!
Why would a homeschool mom be thinking she needs to ditch a curriculum?
*The curriculum is a bad learning-style fit. Once they got started, your teens hate the curriculum because it is totally geared toward a different learning style.
*The curriculum is just too hard. Most homeschool high schoolers are average students (that’s the meaning of the word.) Some curriculum is geared for honors-level. That is too difficult for an average teen.
*The course is too easy. Your teens are BORED!
*The format is a bad fit. Co-op is too much work and your teens feel overwhelmed.
*Life’s demands have changed. Unexpected circumstances have arisen and your teens are finding this curriculum too time consuming.
How can a homeschool mom ditch a curriculum?
*Ask yourself: What is the difference between waste and wisdom? It is not a waste to ditch a curriculum when you’ve tried your best to find the best curriculum for your teens, invested in it but found it is a bad fit. It is wisdom to work to find a better educational fit.
*Ask yourself: Does the transcript need this level of rigor? If your teens are struggling through a high-powered history course when their college majors will be math or science, you might be better time and energy steward by switching out.
*Ask yourself: What is the life lesson that needs to be learned here? Do your teens need to know mom will step in and advocate for them by helping them find a better-fit course? Do your teens need the character development created by soldiering through a difficult or boring course?
*Give yourself the gift of dreaming about next year. It helps to get through this year. Start planning well for a new year.
*Ask around. Bless someone else! Donate or sell the bad-fit curriculum.
*Ask around. Do some research. What are friends who have teens LIKE YOUR TEEN using for their high school curriculum.
*Try 7SistersHomeschool.com’s conversational, adaptable, affordable e-text curriculum.
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*Try some freebies to get you started!
*Remember, Sabrina suggests that for your teens: If it is not moving you forward, it is holding you back.
Here’s a fun post about scrapping your schoolbooks!
While you’re thinking about it, watch this encouraging chat by Sabrina:
How and Why to Switch Homeschool Curriculum Mid-Year?
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