Thank you all for your input, I greatly appreciate it! @MamaSprout I am now seriously leaning towards MFW with some BJU supplementing. We actually used it a little in the early years, I don't know why I never thought of it for High School. @freesia your post was EXTREMELY helpful. I think I've crossed TOG off the list for now. I'm looking into the writing programs you mentioned too. Again, thank you, I've been agonizing over this for weeks and loosing sleep over it. This has helped a lot!

So I’ve homeschooled 4.5 years, but we put the kids in private school last January bc I was overwhelmed with 2 middle schoolers that wouldn’t listen, a preschooler and a toddler. And then of course everything got shut down and they ended up back home anyway 🙄 So now we’re back to homeschooling for this next year, but hopefully we’ll get off to a better start! I have a 9th grader, 7th grader, K and 2 yr old. I really never planned on homeschooling high school but for multiple reasons we’ve ended up with homeschool being our only choice this year. My big question is, which would be less teacher intensive for me with the older two kids? I really, really, really feel Socratic discussions and critical thinking are super important but I really need to concentrate on the little two that got pushed aside a lot the last year. We’ve done BJU reading and some writing and grammar before and while I think it’s a great curriculum I also feel it can be very teacher intensive. I can’t imagine doing two full grades of that. If we go that route we’ll do 2 dvds each (Science and...?!) but they’re so expensive. If I do lit dvds do I still need to sit down and discuss with them? Should I just not worry about it and the books/worksheets are enough? ive been looking at Tapestry mainly bc of the discussion questions and book choices. But how long does the teacher prep take each week? Do I need to read ALL those World Book pages every week? I don’t mind the planning and can do that Ahead of time. It’s weekly prep and Endless grading that get to me. Our internet is terrible so any type of live online classes are out. My 9th grader is very independent, a self starter and likes BJU. She matured overnight practically when I put them in school in Jan. My 7th grader is the opposite of that. She retains very little from textbooks and hates all things “school,” but seems to enjoy and retain a lot from living books. I thought of doing BJU with the older and tog or Sonlight with the middle schooler but that seems like so.much.work. Plus adding K and the youngest to that... Both are college bound, but the colleges we’ve looked at don’t require specific social studies or lit courses. I think my middle schooler will probably end up going to a tech school. She loves working on engines with her dad. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts! I think we’ll stick with BJU science and we’ll do mathusee for math. It’s the writing, lit and history that I’m struggling with. I’m so afraid of spending tons of money and then ending up with a train wreck and messing up my oldest’s high school transcripts. Thank you!