No School tomorrow, No Sweat!

One of the factors that encouraged us to start homeschooling was the unpredictable and horrible weather that has come to our area the past couple of years. Last year, the kids lost a week of school due to the "October Surprise", the blizzard that hit our area just before Halloween. This year, we had both Hurricane Sandy and the Blizzard of 2013 a few weeks ago. In all of these cases, our kids lost weeks of school that they had to make up at the end of the year. If school is cancelled tomorrow, the kids in our town will be going to school until June 28. In Tom's case, he would go to school till June 28 and then have to start Summer School the following week, which would, in essence, give him no break at all until August. Although my son needs consistency and constant review, I felt this was a bit too long.
I realize that I may have made a mistake over the past two years. Although summer school was recommended, we passed on it. The reason we did so was because it was kind of a "one size fits all" approach. All of the special needs kids were grouped in one classroom which hosted two grades.
I went through two years of Tom doing summer school with this approach and not really learning much. I got most papers back with things already written for him and was not sure whether or not he was really doing the work. So for the following year, I decided not to send him and have him just work at home and go to his reading tutor. This turned out to be a bad idea because he didn't want to work at home during the summer, and he ended up regressing come fall. I have now realized that Tom must work every day no matter the season.
So, where am I leading with these two observations? I am beginning to think that homeschooling is going to work better because we don't need to take time off for either summer or school cancellations.
 There are a summer park and rec program in our town that Tom enjoys going to. It runs from 9-1 in the mornings. Today Tom asked me if he could start school early during the summer so that he could still attend. I said that we would think about it. We have several months of doing this ahead of us yet.
We will see how this goes. Maybe doing school every day and getting up early on summer mornings

so that he can go to rec camp will work out. We'll see.