It sounds like you may need to play the "mom knows best" card and pull him out against his wishes, though I don't envy you. Weirdly, where I am, Waldorf is HUGE among homeschoolers, so I almost instinctively associate Waldorf with homeschooling in contrast to regular school. However, the Waldorfy homeschoolers here are generally not very rigid and apply it in a way that works for their kids, taking what works and leaving the rest behind. You can still knit at home, and also do advanced math. Good luck.

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So, in order to participate, does the student need to join a high school team?

Well maybe, maybe not. Certainly there are some very tough AP courses out there, ones that require 2-4 hours of study per day. (I'm looking at you, AP Biology.) But there are others such as AP Computer Science A, which is nowhere near what a college computer science course would be like. And as Penelope pointed out, there's AP Computer Science 1 which is even more lightweight.

:iagree: :iagree: :iagree: Nart provided good information for their specific situation. Normally California parents don't go out and get a teacher certification just to homeschool. But since these parents are already teachers, then why not see all the options available to them? :grouphug: to Nart.

Another thumbs up for AP Chem with Mr. Moskaluk. But this class seems to self-selecting for high achieving students, and most students appear to be working hard and doing very well in the class. It does require fair amount of initiative on the part of the student to make sure he/she understands the material thoroughly and taking advantage of the discussion boards if they do not.

I'll let other chime in in case I'm wrong, but my understanding is that AP CS is basically a semester long course that is stretched out over an entire year and it assumes the student has no programming background. If your student does have some background in programming, then this might be a good first AP for him/her. Edify Edhesive with Mrs. Dovi is a good choice, and worked well for my dd. ETA: It's actually called Edhesive NOT Edify. Sheesh.

Unless you think test-taking is an issue for him, I wouldn't worry about it. My kids have been using AoPS for years and I never tested them on the material. The only tests I use are the AMCs and MathCounts. If they are doing well on those, I don't worry about it.

The people administering the scholarship make the rules about deadlines. All you need to do is follow them. If having a later deadline was a problem in delivering scholarships, then it's up to them to change the rules. Since you aren't the one paying the money, you don't need to worry about how it happens. If your ds needs more time, let him have it.

Thank you; I replaced the full text with a link. It's easier to read that way, and there are some data tables as well.

There was an article in WSJ yesterday about how for future engineers, paying extra for a name school isn't worth it. I'll try to find it and post it here. (OTOH, a name school is more important for people majoing in the humanities.) Also, those CC professors are unsung heroes. Here's the WSJ article. ETA: replace text of article with link.

Astronomy?

I would take the bolded with a grain of salt. What schools are being attended by the previous year's graduates? Are they all getting into their first choice schools?

Or updated versions of classics. There are newer Nancy Drew mysteries. My big complaint is that one of the detective trio is supposedly a computer expert. But her "expertise" stops just at being able to do a google search. The other 2 girls appear to be incapable of using the internet. So I guess she's the "computer expert."

DD looking over my shoulder: "OOOHHHHH!" I think she just got the meaning of the sentence. "Where do they go to run?" Thanks!

My daughter is unable to reach her Spanish teacher and has a question about this sentence: ¿Adónde piensan tus amigos correr? She asks: Does it make sense grammatically because I don't think correr should be in the infinitive form, but rather in the -ing form. Thank you for your help!

Here's a good explanation.

Many of my engineering classes (if not all, my memory is hazy) were open book or open note, but let me tell you. Those exams were still hard, and frankly, I didn't have much time to consult my notes or textbooks anyway.

The difference between that volume 1 and subsequent volumes, is that newer books are separated into elementary and middle school level exams. If you are using them for general problem solving, and not specifically preparing for MOEMS, then I think volume 1 would be fine. If your daughter is routinely getting 4 or 5 correct (out of 5) then you can switch to practicing with old AMC8's, as previous posters are recommending. You can also find old MathCounts exams for middle school practice.

Does anyone have reviews of the AP biology offered by PA Homeschoolers? Are there any other online AP bio options?

Similar story here, but I would take calls from people "thinking about homeschooling." I would get excited for them, and extol the virtues with the negatives thrown in to keep it real. I would talk for hours about homeschooling. And now I can't remember a single family that ended up pulling their kids from school. (I must be doing something wrong.) It's happened enough times now that I keep my head down now.

Ooh, can I join in the FB-bashing? I hate missing a single message, particularly for threads I'm interested in. That's why I love the WTM so much. The linear threads make it easy to read every. single. bit. of wisdom on these boards. Plus, it arrives in my email every day. In contrast, FB has a topic with replies, and then replies to those replies, recursively replying, and it's easy to miss the small font links to actually read those replies. Whew! I hate the feeling that I'm missing something important, if I skip over a link.

Sounds like a good movie: Snakes on the Spectrum!

Maybe this falls under "internet safety" but specifically: avoiding identity theft, not sending naked pictures of oneself (everyone will see them and they won't go away), suspicious fishing emails and spam (how to detect if it's really your bank that's contacting you). I was also just reading about an online dating scam where the lovelorn are convinced to spend thousands of dollars on their new online "girlfriend/boyfriends." Also, don't join ISIS. (I hear it's a thing now.) Also, don't post racist or inappropriate comments publicly, even though you are only joking and everyone knows you aren't a racist, blah blah. Did you hear about this story? Ugh, the internet is scary.

It's a struggle for me as well. On the one hand, I know someone without a college degree who now a VP level in a technical position at a technology company. But he's pretty brilliant. OTOH, there's an article just today in the WSJ about voters without college degrees who are anxious about staying in the middle class: "Some 62% of Trump supporters, including Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, have no college degree, compared with 45% of those backing Jeb Bush or Sen. Marco Rubio. The Ellises, both registered Republicans who consider themselves independent, have survived hard times. In 2010, Mr. Ellis, was laid off after 19 years at a billboard company. A job working logistics during the Gulf of Mexico oil-spill cleanup paid well but lasted just a few years. He soon was servicing vending machines for barely above minimum wage. Last summer, he landed a job running the shipping department at an international company for $14 an hour. Mrs. Ellis earns less than that as assistant director of a day-care center. For six years, they lived in a double-wide mobile home, while they scrimped and borrowed to build a small, three-bedroom house. It has porches in front and back, an aboveground pool and a trampoline for their children, Jade, an eighth-grade soccer player, and Zach, a high-school senior who plans to enlist in the Army. Still, the Ellises haven’t been able to relax into the middle class. They had to raid their retirement fund when floodwaters destroyed their furniture in 2014. Eggs from their chickens help cut down on the grocery bill; a fireplace cuts electricity use from a heating system the Federal Emergency Management Agency replaced for free after the flood. The financial trade-offs—and the fact that Mr. Ellis’s company laid off some workers last fall—makes the prospects of a lost job and strained accounts never seem distant. “Everybody’s afraid to go out and buy anything because we don’t know what the future holds,†Mr. Ellis said." Of course the same could be said about graduates who do get a degree but also find themselves in crushing debt. I think in the absence of a college degree, it behooves a student to at least learn a trade.