Without knowing your budget, it's hard to make the best recommendations. I'm going to recommend Math-U-See for math. Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster is good. Guerber's The Story of the Greeks and The Story of the Romans are both good choices. You might like A Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer, but I can't recommend it from experience.

That's great. I don't know why you're hung up on one example, though. I was hoping it would be part of a larger conversation, but you've been like a dog with a dog with a bone, focusing on a singular tree you don't like rather than the entire forest. I would have much preferred talking about those choices in context of the larger scheme. For example, King College of NY and Trinity, as mentioned earlier in this very thread, are struggling. However, Hillsdale and Patrick Henry are thriving. Wouldn't it be much more interesting to discuss why that is, rather than our discussion about LPNs vs RNs in one location? Apprenticeships are seeing an increase. Colleges and universities are going to have compete against those for students as well. Will that affect enrollment from certain areas, i.e. rural or maybe even inner cities, where many students would financially struggle with tuition for a four or even two-year college?

I don't know the specifics of transfer courses, but I know things aren't as simple because, like you said, it's different than getting an Associate's. When my husband got his radiology tech degree, which was admittedly a while ago, no credits could be transferred in for the program outside of things like English and, maybe a history course. World Religions is the backbone of the multicultural care aspect of the RN degree - there used to be two professors, one broke things up by religion and the other broke things up by aspects such as diet, death, and childcare - so it may not be something they can transfer. I just don't know. My point with those examples simply was and remains that it may not be an across-the-board x-type colleges and universities will be fine, but y-type will fail. It's going to be a very nuanced, likely regional, issue, and it's going to be hard to predict the outcomes on even an individual basis.

No, they can't transfer the credit. The trade school is just a "straight shot" program. There aren't really separate courses, or rather, the separate courses are done sequentially. It's like anatomy & physiology only, then just skills, then pharmacology, etc. Even if they do the one-year bridge, they have to take that course. I think it's not just the one course, though. It's more like, if even that course is 'woke,' then how are the others? LPN's are making around $39 an hour here, and RN's are making about $45, so a lot of people see it as a fair trade. If there was a more drastic difference in pay, then maybe we would have a different conversation. 😕

Unfortunately, our library is full of Batman and manga, and the free section is full of Star Wars and romance novels. 😞 Thank you for the links!

Yes. We aren't too good for used. I just don't know exactly what we need. It's a bit of an odd spot for me because I had our math planned out from 1-8 before the kids were even in school. I always intended to make plans for high school, but now we're almost there, and I have no idea what we're doing.

Our max budget for everything for the year is $200. Most of it is going for science. I can maybe scrape out $50 for math, but it's pushing it.

I'm at a bit of a loss for high school math. For Years 1-3, we primarily used The Eclectic Manual of Methods/Ray's (there were some other books in Year 1, like Prang's, but I would have to find the list). We also used Paper Sloyd. For Years 4-6, we used Ray's, Cardboard Modelling (cardboard Sloyd), and Practical and Experimental Geometry. For Years 7 and 8, we are using Ray's Higher Arithmetic, Asimov's Realm of Algebra, First Steps in Euclid, and Elementary Sloyd and Whittling. For algebra, I plan to add some work with graphing at the end of Year 8. It was relatively simple to put together our elementary and middle school curriculum for free (my copy of Asimov is an illegal scan), but now I'm at a loss for high school. Most of the more rigorous programs, such as AoPS, are out of our budget. Streaming isn't an option, so that cuts Khan Academy and a lot of other things. I just don't know what to do. I would go with Exeter, but I'm not sure I could keep up with it since there isn't an answer key.

My local CC is having struggles with enrollment. It has a new President, and he brought in new professors, largely from more urban areas. Well, as it turns out, nobody here wants to take "woke" classes. For example, World Religions uses a textbook where each chapter/religion has a tie-in section with environmentalism and the final chapter is about environmentalism as a new religion (It's called Experiencing the World's Religions: Traditions, Challenge, and Change by Michael Molloy). Well, World Religions is a required course for RNs and Pharmacy Techs. Nobody wants to take it, so guess what? Those programs at the CC are tanking, but the LPN and Pharmacy Tech programs at the trade school are booming. I brought this up because I think whether or not local schools are affected really depends on their ability and willingness to meet the needs and desires of their areas. The schools that fail and thrive in Florida will look different than those that do so in California, and it may be that neither resemble what works or doesn't in Utah or Nebraska or Virginia.