Honestly I think the Rhetoric sequence will more than prepare for college level writing. I would continue to do what you are doing and just read and discuss literature on the side. You could assign a literary essay per semester and if you feel uncomfortable giving feedback, hire a tutor for several sessions to work through with her. I think Cindy Lange at Integritas does some tutoring. If you really want another class, look at CLRC lit classes (not the Great Books program). They used to not have a lot of assigned writing. But before signing up, I would ask for a syllabus to make sure workload isn’t crazy. It’s been a while since my kid took them. Stay away from Great Books. It’s nuts from the workload perspective.

Mine has a fairly standard lineup for 12th grade: AP Iit, AP bio, AP Gov, AP Environmental Science, philosophy. No idea in what to do on math. Thinking AoPS group theory.

No more coins, but also not free. My kid uses a card. In fact anytime I offer him cash for anything, he looks at me as if I were from another planet. He doesn’t understand how cash is used. 😂

I agree with @lewelma. Mine was certainly lacking in all skills other than academic and has been learning slowly. Now almost finishing up his freshman year, he can do a lot he wasn’t able when he started out (from vacuuming to attending an office hour). He hasn’t been away from home prior to college.

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We had similar experience with physics classes. But I will say that even now at a four year school, a couple of problems can really cost you a grade. My kid’s physics midterm had three questions. The grade in the class is based on two midterms and one final. What we found is upper division math and physics had the most motivated kids. Those were students hoping to transfer into engineering to four year schools. The classes were always spilt into kids who were excellent (maybe 10% of the class) and everybody else struggling. Almost no middle. The biggest issue is kids just want a paper. Most think what matters isn’t knowledge, but a paper that says you earned a credit. Well a credit without knowledge is worthless. But if you don’t understand it, you cheat. And cheating in online classes is rampant.

Does anybody know if a best way to prep for a French placement test? Any good (and not too massive) review prep either in book or video form?

Quality of CCs varies substantially in my experience. Some CCs in CA are absolutely excellent. But some more rural ones (like ours sadly) aren’t. I think Covid made things much worse. I worry that the quality lost during Covid is now impossible to regain.

You are not alone. I have lots of regrets. Homeschooling was extremely isolating for us. Academically excellent but a disaster in all other ways. Whatever is driving the misery, I hope you find answers. Hugs.

Oh, I didn’t realize they didn’t have rolling admissions anymore.

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Gosh, I can’t imagine it being any lesser than AP Calculus, which really all it takes for the 1 series. UCLa runs honors sequence in Calc and physics for those majoring in these areas and needing Caltech level learning. Regular 1 series isn’t that.

Can he write a solid paragraph? I would keep building on that with the goal of an essay before graduation. I don’t know that I would use a curriculum. WWS seems too much work. I think writing across curriculum as much as he can handle and polishing up paragraphs would be the way I would approach it.

I am hoping August 1st. We are looking at University of Indiana.

I will say my kid hasn’t had a single issue with registration down there. Smooth sailing so far. But he isn’t in the bio department.