LOL< as usual I will screw up any analysis you want to make. :D I don't wear makeup (unless it's a night out, and only then lipstick & mascara..no foundation or powder etc), don't care if I am stylish according to anyone elses opinions but my own.... I wear simple, interchangable clothes... HOWEVER.... I wear extravagant, vintage costume jewelry <ALL THE TIME>...dye my hair....hate body hair....rarely wear sensible shoes...have a coat fetish. So I have quailities of both...just not in easily definable ways, KWIM? I would NEVER be caught dead in jeans, but if I am in my house I will wear ratty old pjs...

Beta Testing isn't always free. I was a Beta tester for Logic of English, and I paid $40 for it. When it was finished, we were all mailed full hard-copies of the program. So I got a very expensive program for waaaay cheaper.

The school I went to, PreK-12th, was maybe 85% Jewish. They didn't officially call off Jewish holidays, but barely anyone would show up, so they were sort of "free days." No one taught anything, we would do fun things, or catch up on work.

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I would say pick a few books you like, or that you think your kid would like, and that are on several book lists. Read them together and discuss them. Incorporate the ideas from Figuratively Speaking. That's it. JMHO. :D

If he sets your creep-o-meter off, do whatever you want. I think some people are odd, and that's it. They're odd. Many/most pedos likely WON'T set off a creep-o-meter.

forget it.

If it is turned on, and charged then yes. If it isn't, or he left it at home, then, no....

I got my permit and all that jazz at 16. However, I lived in Chicago and didn't need to drive. I didn't get my actual real liscence until I was 20, and that was because my brothers were going to Italy for 2 months for a video shoot, and they needed me to drive their stick shift datsun around so a) it would not get towed or ticketed and b)It wouldn't die.... So I taught myself how to drive stick shift, by myself, in a Chicago winter in a 1979 datsun, that I first had to unpark from under an elevated train track. :D

There are fifty million curricula, and everyone has different opinions of them. Why? Because we are all different people with different kids and ideas about what OUR homeschooling should look and be like. What is good for you might be horrible for me.:D Don't worry about what other people think is good... you have to figue out what is good for you guys, and that might change multiple times....but you can also do it without a "curriculum." It is hard when you first start, but don't go searching for the ever-elusive, non-existent perfect piece of curriculum. Just pick something and start. You will see if it is a good fit or not as you go along. Even those of us who have been doing this a long time keep looking for the perfect curriculum, even though we know better! Don't worry so much. You'll do great. Remember the big picture, not the day to day. ;)

Ohio laws look scary but they aren't. Some school districts are a PITA, but if you know the regs, you're fine. ;) It is extremely HS friendly, most places have HS days, HS classes, etc. All around a great state to HS in, IMHO.:D

Another big plus is that it isn't overwhelming of intimidating. TWTM can be a bit daunting, especially if you are a newbie or don't realize she's trying to cover more than you can possibly do, so people have options. If you thought SWB meant for you to do everything in the book, you would go insane, IMHO. I actually prefer the curriculum suggestions in the Rupp book, but that's a personal preference. The scope and sequence is quite good, though.

That is a good decision. However, LoF doesn't have classic tests or worksheets. It is definitely a "different" approach. It has problem sets, and end of chapter things, but much of the work is interwoven into the text, and it isn't accountable in the same way as you might be thinking. I don't know what level you are talking about either, as it does make a difference in content.

Fred is a curriculum. MM are a fun supplement, that might make other concepts click, or make them more interesting...but I do not think that Murd. M. could ever be considered a replacement to an actual curriculum. MM are great fun. We love them. I have all of them, they were an excellent purchase. I know there are things my kids understand better because they read about them in those books. Would I ditch my main math program for them? No. Do they add value to what I am doing? Yes. Would my kids still learn their math w/o them? Yes. LoF is not any more expensive than any other math program, IMHO. It is a LOT cheaper than many. But it works best if your kid responds to it, like any other piece of curriculum. LoF gets more love than Murd. M. because it IS a full curriculum. I ADORE murderous Maths, but never gush about them, as no one really asks about them. :D blah blah blah need coffee

It is out dated, but still valuable. I found it to be one of the most helpful books on HSing I ever used. it is mostly secular, BTW. It might even be totally secular, I forget. It is one of 3 books I recommend to new HSers.:D

I graduated in 1988. If I go to my HS's coursebook now, they do not read nearly as many books as we did. We were also on a trimester system, so we had shorter actual days of classes, yet class length was longer, and fewer classes. Now they have semesters and they do 1/3 as much work, IMHO. What I remember, over all 4 years: Amer. Lit 11 th grade: Of Mice & Men, An American Tragedy, Great Gatsby, Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, Walden, Etc. World Lit: The Trial, Crime & Punishment, Moliere plays, Madame Bovary, One Day in the Life of Ivan Dynysovich, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gilgamesh, Canterbury Tales Misc: Brave New World, Macbeth, The Tempest, The importance of Being Earnest, To the Lighthouse, multiple plays and short stories, Faulkner, Classic fairy tales & myths, parts of the Bible as myth and fiction, The Odyssey, Marcus Aurelius, Greek Plays, Herodotus, etc. We read Twain, Shakespeare, Poe and Dickens in middle school. (Toms Sawyer & Huck Finn, R & J, Midsummer's, Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities, All Quiet on the Western front, The Iliad, 1984, metamorphosis, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc)

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It matters because the law says composite score only (or only lists composite score percentile, which is the same thing), and if some people send in the whole battery, it looks bad for those of us who follow the law. We have enough trouble in various districts with admins. not understanding the law and thinking they have the right to all the info, or in some cases more info. Really, it is none of their business, they have nothing to do with the kid's education... Also, it brings in the possible stupidity of someone thinking if you score below 25th in any one subject, they can get all up in your business. Totally not worth it, when all you need to do is photocopy it with a paper over all the good bits. OP, did you know that you can just average out the score and write that on a sheet of paper with all the test info and use that? You can. I know many who just write the comp score and list the test name, date taken, company taken with , then they sign it. You can also photocopy part of it (with the relevant info on the top) and write composite score on bottom and sign that too. If they ask for something more/clarification within the 14 days, THEN send in the whole thing if you want, or tell them no. You have many options. Don't feel bad about notifying in the first place, it happens. :D

I voted OTHER. Why? Not just because none of my preffered programs were on there, but because it really depends on you kid. What mght be magic for some, is like torture for another, KWIM? Or you have a kid who intuitively spells correctly, with a few exceptions, and if you try to use a program it gets them confused. Asking a bunch of random people will just get you a million different answers. I have one natural speller, but he doesn't care if he spells things wrong or not. I have one who seems to have NO MEMORY for any spelling patterns or rules, and I am starting program number gazillion on him. :tongue_smilie: Good luck! I use LoE (I was a beta tester, otherwise I doubt it would've been in my budget) and Apples and Pears (the one from England).

I agree with Elisabeth, and I sure am hoping that you didn't notify last year...unless you pulled her out of K. There are also multiple other sites, local and state, that have all the info on them as well. As far as thinking your kid is below par, she isn't. That is the first test she's ever taken and remember these two things... in Ohio, *IF* you score 25th or 24th % ile and below, composite score.... you still get to HS for another year to show improvement, before they wouldn't approve your homeschooling notification. To show you how silly this is, if you DID have a kid score below that on a test, and you paid for the test, you do not need to turn it in. You could do a portfolio assessment. If you look at all her scores and average them out, while she might have had some pretty low, she had others quite high. With those scores she definitely would've scored over the low percentile threshold anyway. Don't sweat it! K testing is really, really, weird. :D

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Yes, this is only a month or two old. ;)

My spidey sense was tingling.... Do you want to thank me, spank me or slap me? :D

No flames... MCT is definitely not for everyone. If you don't get it, or it isn't quite right, that doesn't mean anything. I hate FLL and WWE with a passion, as it is counter-inuitive to the way we all think, does that mean it isn't a good curriculum? Heck no! The same goes with MCT. In my gazillion years of perusing curriculum, I tend to notice what people are using who seem to like the same types of things that I do. We love Life of Fred, we dislike saxon, we did well with Singapore, but other things could have worked as well. So, I pay attention to someone who likes a few things we do, as it might be in the right ballpark. No curriculum is magic, and if you don't like it, that's fine. ;) BTW, as I am entering level 5 (oh, how did that happen!?)...I will disagree with it NOT being rigorous. It is very intense. It has a great depth. It just looks different than a typical idea of "rigorous," and the first 2 levels look far less in-depth than they really are. It doesn't seem like drudgery.