NCAA and Year-round Schooling

[Ma Lisa]

I live in Texas and Year-round school my kids. We don't keep official track of number of school days, except for course they take at a co-op. We are pretty relaxed about scheduling as long as they finish before the beginning of the new school year.  I'm sure History usually takes them over 150 days to complete. I am not sure if that is acceptable with NCAA, or if the length of course time regulations only apply to public schoolers. Has anyone had experience with this? 

[Corraleno]

There's no place in the homeschool paperwork where you have to list specific hours. The only real restrictions on time are (1) you have exactly four years from the start of 9th grade to complete all 16 core courses; (2) 10 of the 16 core courses must be completed before the beginning of 12th grade; and (3) 7 of those 10 must be math, science, or English. 

[Ma Lisa]

Thanks! I thought I had read the shortest allowed course length is 12 weeks, but then couldn't find where I saw that.

[Corraleno]

The only NCAA rule that applies to the time frame for individual courses (and it's only listed with reference to online/correspondence/credit recovery type courses) is that it has to have a "defined time period for completion," but there's no rule on what that time period should be. This is from the NCAA FAQ page on nontraditional courses:

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Any course taken must have a defined time period for completion. For example, it should be clear whether the course is meant to be taken for an entire semester or during a more condensed time frame, such as six weeks, etc.

Many HS summer courses are only 6 or 8 weeks, and summer college courses can be as short as 4 weeks. The only info you have to provide on the core course worksheets with regard to homeschooled classes is what grade level the course was completed in, not how many hours or weeks it took.