Requirement of days for homeschooling?

Question

In Texas is there a set number of required days one must be homeschooled?

My friend makes her lesson plans for the year however she works longer hours to get more done, she also makes her kids do work on weekends so they will finish their homeschool by the end of February... I was wondering about this.

Answer 1

There are no day requirements in Texas, so your friend is free to set up the schedule as she wishes.

Answer 2

TX has no minimum number of days:

http://www.homeschool.consumerhelpweb.co...

I would be sincerely worried about a family that pushes so hard. They're likely candidates for burnout. But I don't know them, so can't really say for sure.

Answer 3

http://www.hslda.org has the laws for the states. This is what it states for Texas.

Legal Homeschooling Options:  1  



Option: 1



Legal Option:

Establish and operate a home school as a private school



Attendance:

None



Subjects:

Reading, spelling, grammar, math, good citizenship



Qualifications:

None



Notice:

None



Recordkeeping:

None



Testing:

None

Answer 4

Here is the link to the document that has all of Texas' rules and regulations.

http://www.hslda.org/laws/analysis/Texas...

Here is the link to their Texas page

http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/TX/default...

Answer 5

No, there is no requirement for Texas.

Be careful with how you see this though - in homeschooling, you can determine your own schedule, and the kids may be in total agreement with this schedule.  For example, my son chooses an accelerated courseload and chooses a different schedule than public school (M-W, F-S) because he likes having a day off in the middle of the week instead of the weekend.  He chooses to take his breaks for 4-5 weeks in the winter, 4 weeks in the spring, and 3-4 weeks in the summer, simply because that's how he likes it.  

We normally start our school year in May and get done in March.  (He takes breaks in late June-early July, December, and April.)  There are weeks he does school 6-7 days, by choice, but there are also times we just take a few weeks off because he needs it at that time.

Could someone look at our schedule and say that we're pushing?  Yes...but that's where my son is, and it's the schedule that he chooses.  Her kids may actually choose to work harder during the summer, fall, and winter to have the spring off for whatever reason, or they may work hard on formal school for six-seven months in order to have the rest of the year for less structured learning and activities.

You might want to ask her, just out of curiosity, why she does this - you might be surprised at her answer. :)