Yes! I used to love going to homeschool curriculum fairs but a few years ago I went to a local one and it was so depressing to see all the fun things I had used with my kids over the years and to realize that time was over. There are still fun things to do in the high school years, but, for me anyway, not in the homeschooling realm. Homeschooling high school has been more about finding the right classes or materials for them to mostly engage in on their own. And, frankly, I’m happy that my kids have become more independent, but I really miss the enjoyment of cuddling up with our Sonlight books or the activities we did together in Galloping the Globe. I feel lucky to have been able to share that with my children.

This may not be what you want, but I would take a look at Khan Academy. It has gone through some major improvements sometime in the last few years and is a great resource and it is free. My dd used DO for calculus, but was not completely solid with it and went through the Khan AB Calc materials and got everything nailed down that she had been having trouble with very quickly. She covered the BC materials with Khan in a very efficient way that has allowed her plenty of time to prep for the AP exam. I’ve also used Khan with my ds for areas he was struggling in. I think it’s pretty good for a complete program but also great if you just want to target areas of difficulty.

My dd used DO for precalculus. We used the option with self-grading, which is half price. He provides the answer keys. I feel like the answer keys up through precalculus were fine for us for self-grading. I did wind up having Derek grade my dd’s Calculus for a good part of the year, but it takes awhile for the grading to happen and immediate feedback is so much better with math, IMO. As much as I like DO, I really wasn’t as thrilled with calculus when he was grading, just because it really took awhile and slowed us down.

My dd is taking that class for one semester this year and I think I’m going to give her one credit for English Composition and then give her half of a Greek History credit. So, basically, 1.5 credits for one semester of work. I’m going to clear that with Sue Ellen to see if she thinks it’s valid to give a full English credit, but honestly, my dd is doing far more writing during this semester than she’s done in any other class other than AP Lang and she’s done 4 years of other (not CLRC) GB-type classes prior to this. I agree with you that you simply can’t base it on time spent. My dd has been in a number of classes that have been a normal load or light for her where I’ve heard people complain about the many, many hours it was taking their children. When my dd took AP Lang, she was on the young side and it took her forever to get the assignments done. In the end, everyone gets the same credit for the class, no matter how long it takes. The material in the CLRC GB class is at a level that I think the additional credit is fair. ETA: I think if I was going to give 3 credits, I would just call the third one “Rhetoric”.

What on earth is causing this, I wonder? A huge increase in overseas applications? Thanks for sharing these drops in acceptance rates. This thread is really helping me get my head on straight about making sure we have a number of safeties and talking up some schools to my dd that we were only considering as back ups.

I wound up outsourcing most of my ds’ work throughout high school because he was much more responsive to the deadlines given by *real* teachers once he hit a certain age. Honestly, he still took much longer to do things than I wanted him to, but I have had to let that go. He is at college now and doing well. I suspect he still takes longer to do things than I think they should take him, but such is life.🙂

Is there a list of these somewhere? I’m thinking UAH would be on that list from what I have read here, but what other schools do people look at because of the opportunities within the honors program? Thanks!

Maybe she could continue with ASL and then, once she’s in college, get permission to take ASL over the summer at the cc to meet her foreign language requirement? I have noticed more and more schools accepting ASL for the foreign language requirement. That way, if she doesn’t excel in the class, it won’t hurt her from an admissions standpoint. My son, who has language-based lds, took three years of Spanish in high school. I even did Spanish 1 with him at home before he did the 3 years of online classes. It was a ton of work for him and he really struggled with the third year. He is at college now taking a 200 level Spanish class to knock out his foreign language requirement. He’s hoping for a B, but even if he gets a C, he will have fulfilled the requirement. So, maybe it is better for your dd to keep focusing on getting asl down the best she can and then using that to meet her requirement? ETA: In my son’s case, he wanted to learn Spanish and then liked his teacher enough to continue. He decided, much to my surprise, to go on for the third year because he liked the teacher and the class. I think if your dd likes ASL, that is the way to go.

Thanks so much for sharing! It’s helpful and I really appreciate it.

This is what is making everything so difficult. My dd’s application is very strong and when I look at a lot of the schools she is interested in, it seems like she should get in. But then I look at the acceptance rates and nothing feels sure. I’m thinking she has a lot of matches, but not a lot of guarantees. Did your dd apply early action for most of her apps or regular decision?

Thank you.

We’re trying to figure this out right now too. I would like to limit applications to ten or less. The thing I’m trying to figure out is what actually qualifies as a “safety”. I know one factor is being above the 75th percentile, but how do acceptance rates factor into that? If my dd is considerably above the 75th, but the acceptance rate is between 20 and 30%, is this still a safety? Or, can a safety only be a school with a higher acceptance rate? And how high?

Or, is it that you get an offer and then have to wait on a financial package? And does it lessen your chances for scholarships?

Scholastic has a good one. https://www.artandwriting.org/

My dd took it after Latin 3 with Lukeion. She didn’t do Latin 1 and 2 with Lukeion, though. She used Lingua Latina for those years vs. Wheelock’s. Check with WHA and see what they say, but I would think, ideally, the best time to take it would be after Latin Readings so that your dd can solidify her knowledge. However, she will have covered all the material for the exam by the end of Latin 3.

Yes, that is where I was looking too. It has a link to some online practice, but lower down on the page, there is a note that “online practice is coming in the fall”. So maybe they will have something more by then? Honestly, the main thing you need to do for these tests is to solidify the knowledge your dd already has from her studies. The practice materials for these types of exams tends to just be a general overview of the basics of the language, but it is good to have some practice tests. http://klacusa.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=page302e. I don’t know if these are good, but maybe you are familiar with this site?

My dd has not taken the Korean one, but she’s done the Latin and Spanish ones. I would start with this book — The Official Study Guide for All SAT Subject Tests, Second Edition. Your library may have it. It contains one practice test for each of the different subject tests. This will give your dd a baseline. We had limited resources for Latin and mainly relied on the REA test prep book, but I don’t see one for Korean. Amazon has a couple of options, though. I would expect the Collegeboard to offer one as well so that you could get more than one official practice test, but I’m not seeing it if they do. Though, supposedly free online practice will be available this fall.

Thanks, Kathy! I was hoping you would see this and reply. I’ll see what she thinks of Horace.

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If you find dairy is the culprit, we have found as my dd has gotten older that she has no problem with goat dairy and she can even tolerate some regular dairy on occasion. It just cannot be more than once or twice a week.

My dd has a horrible time with dairy but doesn’t test positive for a dairy allergy. Interestingly, my son has celiac. When my dd was little, she had nonstop ear infections and always had fluid in her ears. I found a book called Healing Childhood Ear Infections and the ENT who wrote it said 70% of his patients’ ear infections resolved with the removal of dairy. We completely removed every trace of dairy from my dd’s diet and the ear infections and fluid completely resolved. We tried to resume dairy intake a number of times since we find it far more difficult to do without than gluten and the infections and fluid always returned.

The trainer is a good idea as well as talking to the previous owner some more about her prior routine and training. I’ll probably have to just give him one idea at a time., but I will keep on working on this. I think he wants her to sit next to him on the couch, so this shouldn’t be too hard.

He sits on one end of the couch and he was going to let her sit next to him, but every time he tried, she climbed into his lap. This is something I’m sure she could be trained to do, though. He’d just have to work with her. Another good idea to suggest to him.

Here she is. Isn’t she sweet?

Yes, I would require him to follow that law. We don’t have that law here, but I told both of my kids that they could not have any of their friends as passengers until they had been driving for at least 6 months. The statistics are really high for teens getting into accidents when their friends are in the car.