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  1. I offered to prove my homeschooling status, because I understand that they don't want answer keys to get out there, but they just kept reiterating that selling to homeschoolers was not part of their marketing plan and that they refuse to sell to us. Since they otherwise accept credit card payments, it doesn't seem to be a payment processing issue.
  2. 8FillTheHeart, Did you find the solutions manual necessary, or do the online homework and problem sets grade themselves? I'm glad to hear that your ds loved it, because it looked as if my dc would, too. I do want to figure out how to make this work! Thanks!
  3. I just looked at their site and didn't find the solution guide. I did find the online homework, text, and their scheduling guide for it. Could you post a link for me? Thanks!
  4. Good point, Maize & Um. We are treated as private schools, but not registered as such. I don't know much about purchase orders -- wouldn't they have to have some kind of credit agreement with the private school in order to accept a P.O. At any rate, the idea that we should be discriminated against, and that my immediate payment is less acceptable than someone else's purchase order simply because my children's school is different, still rankles.
  5. Someone want to explain why curriculum companies are allowed to discriminate against homeschoolers? We would like to purchase text/web access and a solution guide from a curriculum company for our two high school students to use next year. However, the company refuses to sell the solution guides to homeschoolers. I can understand that they don't want ps students to be able to order them for cheating purposes, so I called them and talked to both the customer service representative and her supervisor, offering work-arounds such as proving our homeschool status to them or having the solution guide shipped to my husband's workplace (a university), but was told that this is their policy and that they don't want to cater to homeschoolers as part of their marketing plan. (Though they are actively marketing math books/access to homeschoolers. ) Can anything be done about this sort of discrimination? (The website for what we were wishing to purchase is https://webstore.kineticbooks.com/index.php/cPath/31_33 )
  6. My son, a soph who used TT Algebra, Geometry, and Alg II, also scored extremely well on the PSAT math section. Apparently, it covers what it needed for PSAT, SAT, and ACT! (That said, we've now moved on to The Teaching Company for Pre-Calc., in preparation for AP Calculus next year.)
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  8. When mine were younger, they enjoyed Julius Caesar and some of the other histories. For studying/reading a play aloud with students, I prefer the Cambridge School Shakespeare versions, which include a fair number of explanatory and vocabulary helps.
  9. Algebra Tiles weren't a thrill to my dc. They'd learned what they needed to know from Hands-On Equations (which they loved) years before. We also used Common Sense Math Blocks (don't know if those are even still available) to do a little modeling.
  10. We used Singapore's elementary levels, and then one of mine moved into TT and one into LOF. With Singapore, at least as it was a few years ago, the teacher needed to have a good grasp of math theory and practice, so if you don't, I'd suggest moving to something else. My non-math loving child is doing very well with TT, though we only have one year left (Pre-Calc) before we run out of the series and will have to find something else for Calculus. He appreciates the instruction and the fact that there's a full explanation for any problem he misses.
  11. I taught both of mine (now in high school and avid readers) with Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, followed up with the Rod & Staff phonics cards (which teach pretty much every possible combination). Very inexpensive and worked well for us.
  12. To me, it sounds exhausting! AP courses really take a lot of work (at least if a score of 4 or 5 is the goal), so unless your daughter already knows the subjects well, or is PG (Profoundly Gifted), she may not have time to breathe. If she really wants to do two AP courses, I'd agree with the others that one religion course would probably be enough. If, however, she really desires to and has the ability to fill every moment with education, then go for it. You and she know best!
  13. We did a full year and really enjoyed it! Along with the state history text as a spine, we added in science (a lot on rivers, waterways, and agriculture) and literature (children's lit from our state, or covering the time periods we were discussing). Fun! I miss the elementary years. :sad:
  14. Exactly! When I was teaching junior high, there was one year that they needed a teacher for an extra section of literature and assigned it to me (I normally taught science and math). The other lit classes read Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last by Avi, while mine read the Shakespeare play. My students had a blast acting things out in class, interpreting the meanings, etc., and their parents ( and I'd wound up with two dc of school board members) were highly complimentary. Of course, I was never asked to teach a section of lit again as the two older English teachers were deeply offended by my gall in actually requiring literature students to read literature. I was blessed in that my administrators were always highly supportive of my efforts to improve my students' minds, but, looking around me, I was certain that public school teachers were, in general, not people I wanted to entrust my children's futures to.
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