Keep the Fire Burning: Consider Summer School

Summer with its slower pace also affords an excellent opportunity for parents to step back and view their children’s education with a new pair of eyes.
Keep the Fire Burning: Consider Summer School
Let the kids pick their own books, with some supervision, and pursue their various interests. Photo-Art-Lortie/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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Summer’s approaching, and if you’re like most American parents, your children have spent the last few months getting their education in the home, either by distance learning or by materials and assignments provided by their school. You’ve helped guide them through reading and math lessons, you’ve spent some time editing their compositions, you’ve encouraged them when they can’t get online for their scheduled hour of video lessons in biology.

Some of those students, and perhaps you, can hardly wait until schools reopen. Others—some polls say 40 percent of quarantined families—are considering homeschooling full-time beginning in the fall.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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