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I think Liberty University and Patrick Henry College offer online college courses to high school students.
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The classes my ds took had open book tests, but the quizzes and tests were timed and had to be completed in one sitting. The classes required posting on the class discussion board weekly to answer a question or two about the reading. One teacher was completely unresponsive to questions and did not explain assignments well so students had no idea what she was looking for in their essays. Another responded quickly and thoroughly to questions. Another teacher was somewhere in between the first two. None had in person tests or classes.
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Great Race
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house
Road to Morocco, Road to Utopia, and the rest of the Road movies
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My ds loved the Teaching Co. DVD series on string theory.
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In CA, does the one year have to be in the same subject? Can you do a semester of piano and then a semester of something else, or is it better to do the same subject..like a year of piano.
Thanks.
In CA the one year class must be in the same fine arts subject. One year of drawing or one year of drama counts, one semester of drawing and one semester of drama does not count.
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My dd is very allergic to eggs. We didn't know it for the first few MMR shots, but she did get an immediate rash that the Ped said was a normal reaction. (Not!).
Anyway, by 11 mos old or so we had identified the egg allergy. At 5 yo she was supposed to have the MMR again, and I said I wasn't sure because of the egg allergy. The Ped said the allergist can give her the vaccine and it would be fine because his office was across the hall from the hospital, just in case, and that he would not give it to her because of her allergy. For several reasons we decided to go to the allergist and have him give the vaccine. The allergist was horrible and denied that she had an egg allergy because the skin test didn't reveal it. I persisted that she was allergic to eggs and the nurse did a scratch test with the MMR vaccine and she reacted strongly. I was ready to leave and forget the shot, and in hindsight I should have. The allergist said they could give the shot, but never told me specifics. We ended up being there for 4.5 hours while they gave her a very tiny amount of the MMR, then gave her Benadryl and ointment to counteract the reaction, wait 20 min to 1/2 hour, and repeated it till the entire shot had been given. My poor dd had needle marks down both arms. It was dreadful, horrible, awful and lots of other adjectives and had they told me how they were going to give her the shot I would have said forget it, but after they started, I assumed it would be in 2 doses, so it seemed best to let them finish. It was many, many more than that just to give her the one MMR. It was not worth it.
Anyway, she has not had any since then and if she ever needs anything like that again, it will be her choice. She was wiped out for a couple days afterward from all the meds to stop the reactions from the MMR egg allergy.
No flu shots for her, either. We never went back to that Ped. allergist.
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My dc were shocked after they saw Swiss Family Robinson (Disney) after we read the book.
I have told them that we read the book, and sometimes we enjoy the movie, but don't expect the movie to be like the book.
One exception was Lion, Witch and Wardrobe. That movie stuck to the storyline well.
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It depends on the college. Some do care and specifically require Biology and Chemistry. Others just require 2 or 3 years of lab science and say one must be life science and one physical science, so your choices would be fine. There is no general answer that applies to all colleges.
Can you check with colleges she might want to attend? Their websites should tell you.
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I would think that if he finishes 10th grade in May and takes the test in June,then he is a junior. He completed 10th grade. The next grade is 11.
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I wish I could find the links now, but I read some articles about how the governors (and appointees) for most the states were working on the core standards. It said that one of the prerequisites to apply for Pres. Obama's education money (I can't remember the name of the program), that almost all the states applied for, but only a few won the money, was that the state would voluntary work on common knowledge curriculum (funny, but one article specifically stated that it is not 'federal curriculum standards' because the states are working on it). So the states are working on it, but only because they had to agree to in order to apply for possible extra education funding. Past presidents wanted a national curriculum, but states refused because education falls under the states, not federal gov't., so by attaching it to the carrot of applying for more education money, the states are voluntarily agreeing to it. So they follow through even though they didn't win the money they applied for.
I worry about implementation and testing requirements. How broad are these standards? Do they apply to all children, in private school and home schools? If so, then I am not in support. If they are to apply only to public schools, then since state and federal gov't fund the public schools, they can set their standards. I don't want it to apply to private and home schools, though. There need to be options for parents and children. The possible ramifications are huge. Will a student be able to get a diploma from a private or hs if he has not completed the national standards as evidenced by whatever the federal gov't, through the states, decides? How will this all be linked together? How will it be funded? How will it be evaluated? Standardized tests? Will colleges require this for admission? Will it really be a higher standard than states have now? Where will the bar for passing be set?
Lots of questions, no answers yet.
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Since he is lying, you should get your insurance co involved. And ask his insurance company why he wasn't in that part of town since he lives there. It would be interesting to hear what they say.
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Buy skates that adjust to a range of sizes so your dc don't outgrow them as fast. Please, buy safety gear, too.
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I think it has to do with priorities. Many people want to be friendly, but their priority is with other activities. It is not that other activities are wrong, but we need to have time in our lives for other people.
I like being with friends. I like getting to know people. I like having people over to my house for tea or a bbq. The problem is, I can't find people who are interested. Some appear friendly until I invite them over. Then they are too busy.
To be honest, I am tired of being the one who attempts all the arranging and inviting. In the past five years we have had many families to our home. In the past five years, one couple invited us to their home, spur of the moment. We had had them over many, many times for meals, bbqs, and on holidays. They wanted to go out after church and asked us to join them, but we didn't have enough money for a restaurant. They asked us to bring pizza to their home. We did that. I was so happy that someone finally invited us to do something, even though we had to bring the food. There was someone else who kept saying he and his wife wanted to have us over. We have had them over to our home, too. Weekly, when we saw them,they would say that. I asked when they wanted to do it. They said they would have to check their calendar and let me know. Weekly we had the same conversation. I would give days and times that we were available and tell them that we would love to get together with them. After three months of this weekly conversation, it changed to them saying they really wanted to get together, so when can they come over for dinner. Sigh. We thought they wanted to have us over. So I gave some dates when they could come for dinner. Turned out they were too busy to ever come.
But really, I think I give up. My examples were a couple from the last five years, but this goes back much longer than that. I guess I value friendships and spending time with people more than other people do. I don't do things for others in order to get something in return, but it would still be nice if someone would do the inviting for a change.
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My son, in college, came home one day and told me that someone had paid the bill for him and his friends at Denny's. Between classes, ds and his friends went for late breakfast. There were 6 of them. A man came to their table, and ds and his friends were concerned that may be they had been too loud or something and the guy was mad. The man told them that they seemed like nice young men and that he wanted to buy them breakfast. While he paid their check, the man's mother sat with them and chatted. Ds said she was in her 90's and was really fun to talk to. The man came back, got his mother, told them to have a nice day and to tip the waitress well.
My son was amazed that anyone would do that for him and his friends.
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You have done a good job so far, right? At least the test score says so. What really changes for high school? I know it feels more official somehow, or more vital, but really, it is just the next step. It is just one more lesson. It is the same thing you have been doing all along, just at the next level. You are not the only one who has wondered about being able to hs high school. It is very possible to do so successfully, and there are hs grads in college and who have careers to prove it.
So yes, I would say that you can do it, just like you have done it since you began. You have resources, so use them when you need them. New opportunities will arise that you can't anticipate right now. Your son wants to continue hsing. It sounds like ducks are in a row.
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I suggest you find the closest Civil Air Patrol and sign her up. It will help her a lot if she participates and starts moving up through those ranks.
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Slight hijack/additional question....
Can the number of AP courses/exams taken affect a student's freshman standing (for college scholarship applications)? Or, like Clep, are these credits "banked" in some way? Or do the universities not count them when considering admission status, but just when the student begins to actually schedule classes?
Unfortunately, the answer varies by college. Some colleges limit the number of credits a student can have from AP and CLEP. Some have a low limit, and others allow many. It also depends on how many credits each college allows a freshman to bring in. In our experience, one college allowed a freshman to bring in no more than 14 credits (total of all community college courses, AP and CLEP). Other colleges said that any number of college credits is allowed as long as they were taken prior to high school graduation. In those cases, there was no maximum that affects freshman status, and the credits were applied at the end of the freshman year, so the student could go from freshman one year to junior the next. Another college said that freshman status could include bringing in no more than 24 credits.
Sorry, but you will need to check with potential colleges to get a specific answer.
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I have not used A Beka Biology, but I think it follows more of the typical high school sequence of topics. Apologia Biology does a lot of microbiology, a topic not done in as much depth in a typical high school text. Apologia Biology covers human anatomy in a different course, and most high school courses include that in the regular Biology course.
My dc have used all the Apologia high school courses except Adv. Chemistry and Marine Biology. Our experience has been that they found college lab Biology to be mostly review of Apologia Biology, and they found the college Biology course to be very easy because of their Apologia background. I don't know how the A Beka course compares. Hopefully someone can give you that info.
My ds who also completed Apologia Adv. Biology said his college Anatomy and Physiology course was mostly a repeat of that Apologia course.
So I can attest to Apologia being a quality course to prepare a student for college Biology and Anatomy and Physiology.
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Have an extra swimsuit to use in addition to the team suit. Some pools are pretty harsh on swimsuits. Keep the ones that get holes because you can layer them. Have an extra pair of goggles in the swim bag, or at least extra straps for the goggles, depending on the style you get. They get lost and they break at inconvenient times.
Since your meets are in the evening, be sure you have sweats or fleece to throw on over the swimsuit between events to stay warm. I don't know where you are, but here, fog moves in in the evenings, and it can get cool. Have lots of towels.
Have chairs or blankets to sit on, and bring shade if it is still sunny at meets.
Bring something for the swimmers to do during meets. A deck of cards, or small toys and games, color books, etc. all work. Meets can be 5-8 hours long, so they need something to do.
Be prepared to help out, either timing or organizing the swimmers, or whatever your team needs. It's a good way to be involved and meet other swim parents.
Focus on how your children have improved over the swim season instead of on what ribbons they win or what place they take in a race. The real improvement comes when they swim the same event 2 seconds faster because that is an objective measurement of improving their skills. It is better to swim 3 seconds faster than at the last meet and take 5th place than to swim 1 second slower and take 2nd place. Make sense? The real race is against their own times.
Have fun! Swimming is excellent exercise for a lifetime as well as a practical skill.
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I think other posters have expressed it well.
Unearned praise is a huge problem. Children are praised for doing the bare minimum, and people assume that the praise will encourage them to perform better in the future. However, that usually backfires. If children are told that their minimum effort is "fantastic" and "wonderful", they learn not to work any harder than the minimum expectations. Why do more if what they already do is fantastic and wonderful?
Too many children are lavished upon with empty, meaningless praise and rewards.
Look at sports. All the children on a team receive trophies at the end of the season. Did they do anything special to receive a trophy? No. Their parents signed them up and paid the fee, which included a trophy for participating. Many of my dc's friends have shelves lined with trophies, but they are not a sign of any accomplishment, apart from having paid to be on a team. Where is the meaning? My children realized that the trophy meant nothing, and usually tossed it into a box in a closet or threw it away. The trophies and medals they display are the ones with meaning - winning the league championship, or taking first place in an event at the championship meet, or breaking a record. They worked hard to achieve their goal, and that symbol has a lot of meaning.
My husband coached my sons' soccer teams for several years and had parents angry at him because he didn't want to give out participation trophies. He finally opted for a participation ribbon or small medal only because some parents couldn't fathom their child not receiving a trophy for all that they would accomplish that season (and these had to be ordered before the season was even half over). They seemed to truly believe that giving their children a trophy for simply being on the team would build their children's self esteem and make them better players in the future. Empty praise. Some parents agreed with my husband and understood that giving all children a trophy devalued the achievement of the winning players and team.
When this attitude and expectation continues to grow throughout childhood and enters adulthood, we end up with college grads who assume employers will be lining up at their doors, competing for them and paying them lavish salaries for little work. We get students who complain that they received a low grade in a class, thinking they deserve an "A" because they showed up every day and paid a lot in tuition (and yes, I heard a college student say that). We end up with college grads who blame the university for not telling them that getting a degree in history won't necessarily mean they have job skills that apply to any jobs. Yes, I read that complaint by a graduate who said that the college should have told him that there are not jobs that require a history degree. He couldn't find any jobs that he qualified for, yet he blamed the college. He said that he paid a lot for tuition and should have had a job upon graduating, so the college was neglectful.
I still don't know what we can do to change this on a large scale, though. I can teach my children to be realistic, and I praise them when they it is deserved. I encourage them to do their best, then know that they can't do better than their best.
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Remember the Titans
Radio
The Devil Wears Prada (I think this would meet your standards)
Day After Tomorrow
2012 (released this month)
I Robot
Night at the Museum (both original and sequel)
The Island
Stardust
The Princess Bride (if it is even possible that you have never seen it...)
Jumper
The Pacifier
Sahara
27 Dresses
Legally Blonde
Miss Congeniality
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My ds had to pay almost $200 this year in taxes because not enough was withheld. He claimed 0 exemptions because when he got the job, HR told him to claim 1, and he owned money at tax time because he was a dependent. He changed it, even though they told him he shouldn't. They didn't know what they were doing. Then he always got money back. This year he owed again, even though money was withheld, apparently because of the Making Work Pay thing. It doesn't help a child who is a dependent because they didn't have enough withholding, but can't claim a tax credit. Many student we know who had a job ended up owing taxes this year because of that.
It sounds like there is more problem than just that, though. Either your dd or you needs to speak to the library to be sure they withhold money. They are not helping your dd by letting her have more take home money and less withholding.
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The tests are different and colleges treat them differently. He can take both, but may not receive benefit from them both. Some colleges accept high scores on an AP test and some won't. Some give credit for AP tests, others don't give any credit, but count the test as meeting a course prerequisite. Some colleges give CLEP credit and others don't. Many colleges will have a cap on the number of colleges credit they accept from AP and CLEP tests. I think the only benefit your dc would get from also taking the CLEP test would be if he passed the CLEP, but got a a low score on the AP. He could then use his CLEP score for college.
One thing you can do would be to check with some colleges he may want to attend and find their policy on AP and CLEP tests, then make a decision.
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Final Cut Express is a good beginning video editing software, but I'm not sure it works on a PC. My ds started out using Premiere, then got a Mac and used Final Cut Express until he saved enough money to buy Final Cut and its associated software.
Before my ds switched to using a Mac, he used the Adobe Premiere software and had no problems with it. It does require a lot of RAM and hard drive space, so if it is not running right, check to see if you have enough of both. The minimum amount listed really is a bare minimum. You need more.
Can we share info on healthcare OUTSIDE the US?
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Not me, but a friend's grandma. She was visiting in the Netherlands, fell, and broke her hip. Needed a hip replacement. The hospital treated her, no problem, but told her they would not do the replacement because she was too old. They told her they would care for her in the hospital. She was on a floor filled with older people who couldn't walk due to hip issues, but they were all too old for a hip replacement as per their treatment procedures. She was well cared for, but said most these people could have lived at home had they received the hip replacement. Instead they told her they had to stay at the hospital because of the medical rationing. Those were the words they used, according to her. Her family had to arrange for a medical flight home to the U.S. where she received her hip replacement. She went back to full activity. That was maybe 8 years ago, and she is still active. Certainly not too old for a hip replacement to be successful and worthwhile. So bottom line, she received the basic care she needed, but not the treatment that would solve the problem.