Sometimes change is good but always too much change can be mind-boggling, unsettling, and counter productive. This is particular true when it comes to your child's education, and particular your child's educational track - that is, the teaching style or curriculum you adopt. In homeschooling, there are many curriculum providers and some of these are actual schools. However, not all of them offer k12 homeschooling. Some are limited to preschool, others to kindergarten, a few to just elementary, and even fewer to just high school. There are compelling reasons why you should stay the course and resist the impulse to change your child's curriculum unless absolutely necessary.
When you adopt a curriculum for your child's education, you also establish a method of delivery and teaching style commensurate with the course materials. You decide whether you will opt for an Internet based or classroom method of delivery or correspondence course type delivery. You then have to learn the course content and develop a teaching strategy to wed the course with your child in order to enhance your child's learning.
But did you know that just as you are having to make changes your child is also changing into the mode of the curriculum you have chosen? It will take your child some time to settle in and "get into the groove." To disrupt that sense of acclamation by changing the curriculum would be counter productive to your child's education. I remember how bewildered and overwhelmed I was when I graduated from a private university with small class sizes and enrolled at a major public law school with 125 students in a class. It took me a while to settle in to this new environment and method of teaching and learning. And I was 30 years old at the time!
That is why you should adopt a k12 homeschooling curriculum for your child that is able to grow with your child so that you can stay the course and not disrupt your child's education.
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