No, dd went to community college first, and will have an associates degree.

Hi ladies, Has anyone been in this situation? Does the Common App want info from high school and from you as the "counselor" after 5 years out of school? Do I have to dig up all the old home school records? (I do have the transcript!) Any info will be greatly appreciated. Barb

Hi all, My 12th grade daughter needs some assistance with essay writing. Any recommendations for an on-line course? Thanks! Barb

Hi, Regarding time it takes to do Starting Points: it varies a bit. My son wasn't super motivated in the beginning (he was 12 at the time) and it being the beginning of the school-year, well, you know how that is! It probably takes up to 2 hours a day at this point but I have my son working on the literature aspect, the bible/worldview aspect and the history section concurrently. The syllabus is set up so that each of the sections are worked through one at a time, but I wanted my son to have more history, and to go through the theology a bit more slowly. This has worked pretty well. Right now he is reading Mere Christianity, Frankenstein, and working through the history book. He also has Biology, Grammar and Comp, Latin and a hefty music period but he is keeping up. There is a yahoo group for Starting Points as well as Worldviews of the Western World so you could also get more feedback there. I have personally learned a lot Starting Points and Worldviews about where we are as a culture and how we got here. The downfall is there is no teacher's manual, as in, there is no answer key. Also in answer to your question about discussion time, it varies. We mostly discuss when ds is having difficulty understanding what he is reading. Wish we did a better job at this but... Barb

Hi, I've been using Starting Points with my 13 year old son this year. I've also used Worldviews of the Western World by Quine. I really like the biblical worldview teaching aspect of the program. The literature part teaches you to look at what you read or watch and to compare it to the biblical worldview. Three of the books used are from the Chronicles of Narnia series, so if your son has already read these you could go through this part more quickly. That leaves Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I'm not familiar with the literary program you are using though, so I don't know how it would add to the workload. I'm happy to try and answer any questions you have. Barb

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what would a Western Civilizations course consist of? Thanks! Barb

who is finished with Algebra 2. She'll be going to community college after high school. Do we need Pre-calc (which is next in the Math U See series)? Any suggestions for a practical math program for 12 grade? Thanks! Barb

Hi, My dd is questioning Apologia Chemistry because a public schooled friend took a look at it and said it looked "easy" and they had already done certain things my dd was working on, etc. It seems pretty challenging as far as I'm concerned esp. since math is not my daughter's strong suit. And she won't be pursuing any kind of science related field. Thanks! Barb

I'm trying to use homeschool tracker but my old pc is so slow and freezes up. What do you use for attendance, grades, transcripts, etc?

I'm looking for recommendations for homeschool software, preferably downloadable for Mac. Thanks! Barb