I mean Schole Academy. Autocorrect drives me crazy

I was planning on doing Art of Argument with my 7th grader next year -- ByGrace3, do you think this is feasible without the outside support of Schooler?

All the discussion of Derek Owens has been helpful! I noticed that no one ever mentions Abeka Precalculus, which surprises me since Abeka seems to be a fairly dominant publisher in the homeschool market. Has anyone had experience with that?

When you say you wouldn't recommend Saxon Calculus, especially without the advanced math book for pre-calc, do you mean that you'd find it more acceptable if the Saxon Advanced Math were used as the pre-calc curriculum? I would actually have thought that would be MORE of a problem due to the limited scope of Saxon Advanced Math -- can you clarify please?

I was planning to possibly use Saxon as the Calculus course the following year -- I know it's not the most advanced selection, but as an endpoint in high school, I don't mind. My concern was simply preparing the student for Calculus, and the Saxon Advanced Mathematics doesn't seem to do that. But, LinRTX, did you use it successfully before your children did the Saxon Calculus?

We are actually trying to avoid videos or any screen content ....we have had massive screen distraction issues. I have personally had up through high school calculus, although I wasn't the strongest student at that level.

We are shifting away from a live online course provider for my high schooler, and therefore find ourselves in the position of doing our own curriculum selection. I'm looking for something as well explained as the Saxon math books are, but with a sufficient coverage of precalculus material. I don't really think that Saxon's Advanced Mathematics adequately covers precalculus topics in such a way as to set students up for success in calculus (if you have seen hard evidence to the contrary, let me know!), and the Prentice Hall precalculus book used by our older student through an online school seemed as if it would be opaque to someone without weekly access to a professional math teacher. Can you give any suggestions? NOT looking for online courses:).

We have what we consider to be an excellent Pearson Chemistry textbook (2012) used by our oldest student in an online course, and we'd like to use that for our rising 10th grader next year -- but completely at home, without the distance learning. I've looked on the Pearson website and combed Amazon and eBay, but I can't find any sort of test booklet so we can reliably track the student's progress. Does anyone know where to obtain Pearson chemistry tests? And, would I need to order the teacher's edition of the textbook also? I'm not sure how it differs (if at all) from the student edition. Thank you!

Having heard that learning challenges in boys usually dissipate with increased maturity during the high school years if the boy is willing to apply himself, we were expecting our 9th grader to improve on his extremely slow times for completing schoolwork, particularly as regards English or mathematical work. Straightforward answering of multiple choice or filling in a blank is not so bad; it's his having to write language, whether prose or mathematical displays of process, that becomes truly dysfunctional, and not only is necessity not proving the mother of invention with handling the increased high school workload, but he is actually seeming to regress in terms of appropriate processing time. He is not unintelligent but becomes seemingly paralyzed in triggering situations (basically any time when he must generate any type of language, whether writing a sentence according to a pattern for foreign language class, writing an essay, or displaying a sequence of thought on a math test). Obviously, this also impacts his note-taking ability for his live online classes. We have considered putting him in public school for the potential sink-or-swim solution, but my concern is that he could sink instead of swim and the sinking could look very bad indeed (he does NOT want to go). Although his study habits and focus could improve -- he is not great about staying focused if I'm not around (unfortunately given that he's in high school!) but does not generally give me any grief for keeping him on task -- for the most part his problems do not stem from procrastination but from lengthy completion times when he is actually sitting down to do the work. What should we do? Please help!

My confusion on this issue comes from my own experience as a very motivated former homeschool student who sailed through anything humanities-related but had difficulty teaching myself calculus and advanced sciences with no outside assistance or tutoring. 8filltheheart, could you possibly clarify how we can cover these very technical subjects without possessing the ability to teach them or know if the mastery is adequate? I want to do with my children what you describe accomplishing with yours but don't know how to go about it.

I'm looking for options that would give my high schooler and motivated middle schooler accountability and competitive math and science courses. Currently, we are using a wonderful live online course provider, but I'm wondering if it's possible to have outside accountability and truly rigorous courses without a full schedule of live classes? One of my children is extremely self-motivated and would love more flexibility to pursue interests since she has no problem completing her work in a timely manner; my concern is how we would still provide adequate rigor and oversight in terms of content. Do you have any ideas?