You know what? I totally forgot the kids that don't finish up the traditional track. There are kids who stop the alg and geometry track at some point and do consumer math. I can't remember where they generally stop. Before Alg II? Hopefully someone else knows.

It depends on the child. I'm not sure if the years/ages are the same in Canada, but here's how the grade levels work: 1st grade--kids are about 6 years old. 2nd grade--7 years old, etc. Traditionally there have been two tracks: the regular kids and the advanced kids. Regular kids have pre-Alg in 8th grade (13 years old) Advanced kids have pre-Alg in 7th grade (12 years old) And it goes from there: Regular: 8th: pre-alg 9th: alg I 10th: Geometry 11th: alg II 12th Trig Advanced 7th: pre-alg 8th: alg I 9th: geo 10th: alg II 11th: trig 12th: pre calc But there variations. My husband went to a school where he was extra advanced, so he started with pre-alg in 6th and made it all the way through calc by his 12th grade. And some people start later and don't get to alg I, alg Ii, and geo until 10th-12th. But I do think that traditionally you are on the regular or advanced track in most schools. Someone else chime in if I'm wrong.

And google for "free adhd test" or "free adhd assessment" and see if you seem to have it, since you're curious if it's possible that you do. I certainly sounds like you do to me, but I'm not a doctor.

You could always get a second opinion with a GP before going to the clinic if you like. My husband's GP prescribed ADHD meds to my husband based on my dh's own assessment of himself. He might have had my dh take a little 20 question quiz. Or maybe it was that my dh took on online and brought it to show the doc. I can't remember. The meds have made a lovely impact in his life. So, there are some GPs who will prescribe the drugs for adults who say they have ADHD. If it were me and the clinic would be expensive and not covered, I'd start with a second opinion by another GP.

Or you can do Alg I and II back to back and then geometry. And I'm pretty sure you do Trig before Pre-Calc.

I have given up on trying to understand people. There are some lovely people out there and there are some terrible people out there. Those guys were jerks. They were just horrible. Little snots, sitting in their car smoking their cigars harrassing a stranger. I'm mad for you and also sad for you at the same time.

Regentrude wasn't being condescending, in my opinion. She was forthright in answering the question. My son is in 9th grade. I highly doubt he'll be applying to elite colleges, but there is no way I'm going to hold him back on purpose in any subject he loves. I, along with many other parents of high schoolers, expect their kids to take all 4 years of math, 4 years of science, 4 years of history/social sciences. The only thing I'll drop is that he'll do only 3 years of languages. When my son applies to college, he'll be well prepared to jump right in. I think it's a pretty normal goal for many parents, unless their child chooses some sort of alternate route in high school or isn't capable of the work. But for a 9 year old, I'd take the reigns and plan on keeping him going as far as possible for as long as possible. If your son loves math, then let him fly with it. You never know what might stump him in the future and he might slow down. And even though he's got missionary plans, plans change. Lots of people graduate from high school with a plan and it changes. Lots of people make it to their Junior year of college and the plan changes. You need to set him up to be able to go in any direction he might like in the future--a direction that might be different from the one he is planning on right now. Let him move forward in math. No rushing and no holding back. Slow and steady progress all the way through 12th.

Sending it is going out on a limb. I wouldn't do it. It could go either way (being a comfort vs being a source of pain), so I'd err on the side of caution and stick with a card.

Really? I always thought he was ok with an occassional bad guy falling off a building to his death or something. I'm sure you're right. I was never much interested in Batman so I haven't read/seen much about him.

I like Superman. The uncomplicated one. Not the one in the new movies who is a all conflicted. And who kills people. Yuck. Superman doesn't do that. Batman does, but not Superman. I like Superman because he is rock-solid grounded in Doing Good. It's comforting. He has a strong moral compass. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to watch shows where the characters struggle with things, but at the end of the day, I like Superman and his sense of right and wrong and how he sticks by it. Real life has a lot of grey, but with Superman everything is Black and White and it's easy to tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys.

My in-laws like their electronics, but are quite capable of putting them down. My mother hates electronics and won't touch them and won't let my dad touch them either. Yes, won't "let" my dad. But that's because he does get addicted to them. If he has them, he'll play for hours upon hours, so she sat him down and told him he was like an addict and he needed to quit. He agreed and now he has time limits for how much he plays on his computer. I suppose that electronics can captivate anyone. Usually we hear about it with kids because they have the most free time. But I suppose retirees also have a lot of free time, and end up getting addicted. I hope I don't get like that. I'm really seriously thinking of starting a list of all the "Things Not To Do When I Get Old" to refer to when I'm old so I don't annoy my family.

I was ostracized as a kid from 4th - 12th grade. I started out as a kid in 3rd grade with lots of friends. Then I moved to a new school where the kids were pretty tough (Baltimore City--they just were tough, language, fights, etc.). I wasn't tough enough and they could tell and did some mild picking on me. I never felt safe anywhere, and I retreated into a shell. So they picked more. I retreated more. I was terrified all the time. Constant adrenaline and stress in my body. Then I moved to a new school in 5th grade, but by then I was a little mouse and scared of everyone and became friends with a "nerd" who was kind to me before I realized that being friends with her would label me as a "nerd" too. And that was it. We were the nerds in the class and no one would come near us for the next 3 years. By the time I moved to yet another school in 8th grade, I was incapable of making friends or having conversations with my peers. I was more of a mouse than ever, scared of everyone. No one would talk to me. I made one friend in high school and she was a lifeline, but she was a crabby teenager who was always snipping at me. So...the only person who talked to me was someone who constantly snipped at me, in between bouts of hilarious joking and laughter. It was complicated. When it was time for college, I refused to go. I couldn't stand another second of being ostracized by my peers. I had a job and figured I'd just work my way up and would get by with my high school diploma. I met a man who loved me and married him within 9 months of meeting him when I was 19 years old. I believe these were bad decisions (no college, early marriage), all stemming back from when I started being picked on in 4th grade. I do suffer from a sense of sadness quite a bit of the time and find it extremely difficult to connect with other people. If everyone else in the school is great to your son, and if the school handles the bully, then it could be ok. But I don't know how that works. I don't know if that sort of thing is ever successful. I never had a group of kids who liked me, against one bully. It was always everyone against me. For me, being pulled from school would have entirely changed my life. I can't think about it too much because the idea would have been so wonderful, but didn't happen, that it makes me sad to remember living through the hell of constant rejection knowing that if only my mom had heard of homeschooling I could have gotten out of it. It was hell. I cried every night before bed from 4th-11th grade. 12th was a bit of relief because I went to school 1/2 a day and work 1/2 a day. The crying stopped in 12th. So...if you honestly believe the school will handle it, and IF all the other kids treat your son well, it could work. If not, get him out of there.

It's the last name of a couple who wrote some parenting books. There have been cases of children being beaten to death using the discipline techniques outlined in the books. The name of the parenting book is "To Train Up a Child." They also write marriage books and encourage women to stay with husbands who sexually abuse their daughters. It's twisted stuff. ETA: There have been numerous, long threads about them in the past.

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Mrs. Nowell responded within hours of us writing to her and we have her phone number if we have to call her. I would only call her for the direst of emergencies, though. I wonder what would constitue a math emergency? :)

That's crummy. I'm blessed with introverted kids who never want to hang out with anyone, so we've mostly given up on bothering with co-ops. I do belong to one, but we only go on a couple of field trips each year and that's it. I wouldn't even know how to find another group, honestly.

Ah! I see what you mean now: they over-inflate the new price.

That phrase was around long before the Pearls. You'd have to find out why they use it. A lot of times people mean it as only spiritual training and don't mean it as a discipline tool. But, like you, I'd be very wary of them and would find out pronto. P.S. I'd assume they are a heavily Christian group, but you'd have to find out if they're accepting of lots of kinds of Christians or only one kind. Any group with a statement of faith or a bible verse as their motto has the potential to be very narrow in their focus and exclusionary. You have to ask.

Sort of like if you spend $100 on paint, you can ask for maybe a thousand more because it looks so good now. People pay for more a newly painted, staged house. So, you can rent some staged furniture for $500 and ask for $3000 more as the list price. (People are a little dumb and easily fooled by paint and couches is what I've learned from those shows.)

But I thought it was true that if you fix up kitchens and bathrooms, you can ask for more as a sale price than the renovations cost. So if you spend $100k, you can sell it for and extra $110k. Am I wrong about that?

A kid I was babysitting when I was a teenager bit through a mercury thermometer and then spit the glass and mercury out onto the kitchen floor. It was a bear to try to clean up. It just rolled away no matter how I tried to gather it. It didn't help that I blurted out, "THAT'S POISON!" at the little girl. There was screaming and crying. Not my finest moment. (I was 15.) We went to the neighbor's house who called poison control. They said she'd be fine if she spat it out. They didn't say we needed to do anything else. Nothing about airing things out or anything. I'd take a flashlight and search really hard for any mercury balls. You don't want the littles to swallow them.

This is our first online class, so I have nothing else to compare it against. But I'm very happy with it.

We're using Mrs. Nowell's geometry class. Looks like Jann hired Mrs. Nowell on to help this past year, so now MyHomeschoolMathClass has two teachers. My son isn't the sort of kid who loves hitting the books. He does what he has to do to get the work done. He has ADHD, so it can be hard for him to focus. However, he's getting an A in Mrs. Nowell's geometry class. There have been only two times so far this year where he didn't quite understand an entire concept. Mrs. Nowell was right on top of it offering to help as soon as I let her know he was struggling. The one time, I had him rewatch the lesson and he got it. The other time he chose to wait and ask her about it during the next teaching session and he was fine after that. But she was willing to walk him through it one-on-one between classes if he'd wanted. And his struggling was early in the year. I think he's understanding better how to focus and learn online. It's different from working with Mom in person. This year has been so painless for math. As far as I know, he's learning, being that the tests are based on the work in the book and he gets an A every test, so something is sticking long enough for the tests. He works steadily through his homework and he doesn't get all the homework questions right the first time around. I make him re-work them until they're right, but he always manages to do so, only rarely having one that completely stumps him. I think he's had under 10 this entire year that he Could Not figure out on his own. Ten or so problems out of hundreds so far that he couldn't rework and figure out on his own. He doesn't get overly frustrated while he's working on his homework, so overall he seems to be understanding the work. (He only gets frustrated when he runs into one of those ten problems he just Can't Figure Out.) I am 100% signing him up with MyHomeschoolMathClass next year for Algebra II. Either teacher will be fine with me. I've read non-stop good reviews about Jann and now I can give an excellent review for Mrs. Nowell. The sessions are 1 hour, twice a week. Kids can join the group a few minutes before class starts to type "hi" to each other. He can see what's she's writing, and hear what she's saying, but doesn't see her. He doesn't have a tablet or pen to write to her. The students type in responses and everyone can see the typed responses. There is time spent at the beginning of each class to go over any homework problems the kids struggled with. She gives them homework and the answer key is provided as well. I simply check his answer against the key and tell him if it's right or wrong. I'm not expected to teach at all. There have been a few where I dimly remember the concept from my own school days and I've given him tips to get the problem done, but mostly he is learning entirely on his own. (Such a relief for me.)

No one reason for an altar call. Sometimes the person leading the service might specifically say, "Anyone who wants to dedicate their life to Jesus can come up now," and only those who are new to the faith will go up. But plenty of times even when the person specifies that, others might go up because they want prayer for something entirely different. It's a time when all the players are gathered: the person who wants prayer for any reason under the sun and a roomful of people ready to pray and time set aside for praying.

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