Our K12 Virtual School

There are no perfect homeschooling methods or platforms and today as the K12 website refuses to load, I’m reminded that homeschooling through an online curriculum might mean we have an occasional free day.

With K12, you’re very limited to what you can accomplish without the Internet. So, you’re at the mercy of your Internet provider, the cooperation of your PC, and the accesibilitiy of K12’s website in order to get through a lesson. If any one of the three is having an off day, then so will you.

Today we started on schedule, precisely at 9, fully expecting to school until about 3:00. My daughter completed her math assignment, then my son… but somewhere in the middle of his math lesson we lost our K12 connection and I have yet to reconnect with the site.  We finished his lesson without the OLS (K12’s lesson plans), but I can’t mark his lesson as complete or log his hours. It’s a K12 issue, but from what my SIL tells me (her second year with K12) this type of think is a rarity. Only happening a couple days last year.

It sort of reminds me of snow days when I was a kid, only more random (and without the business of creating snow angels and snowmen).  Who gets a snow day on September 1st?  Since my kids won’t ever have a real snow day, I’m calling this their snow day. Why shouldn’t they have a random & unexpected day off from school once in awhile? It’s of course at the price of extending our school year (or is it?).  Homeschoolers have the luxury of making up lost time, anytime. We can do an extra lesson each day this week and leave our calendar untouched.  Just another advantage to teaching & learning from home! 

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