When Schooling Takes Place at Home, Summer Often Knows No Vacation
BevK June 27th, 2006
http://www.mvgazette.com/…e_schooling.php
Poor homeschoolers, it sounds like they don’t get a summer vacation…read on…
Public school came to a screeching halt last week - tests and final projects one day, sweet freedom the next. But at least 16 Island youths will merely slow their studies, instead of stopping altogether. Some may not even acknowledge the two-and-half-month academic bump in the road called summer vacation.
For the home schooled students of Martha’s Vineyard, school may be just another day at the beach: reading a book, collecting shells, practicing arithmetic in the sand. Working with curriculums that reflect their unique interests and learning styles, the ubiquitous days-until-summer countdown is absent from these students’ calendars.
