I don't know anything about Spanish, but English and French just aren't comparable. I speak and write both as a non native speaker. I would say immersion is best for spoken. I would say it's necessary to become fluent for most. But if you ever care to write anything in French or read, you need grammar instruction so you understand what all the endings are all about. English was just not a same ballgame. Also if you have a native speaker at home, it's an easier thing to do immersion. However, I have seen programs where twice a week an hour immersion courses are offered and really accomplish nothing. In that scenario I much prefer a traditional approach. So I guess you have to work with what you have got.

For speaking, but if you want to write it correctly, you need explicit teaching, because there are lots of things you write in French that just aren’t pronounced (in conjugations not just random silent letters as you see in English).

Yes, in 5 minutes. And it will give you access to a massive database of MCQ and FRQ questions to study. My friend walked me through how to find them, but it was invaluable in prepping for the exam.

It takes exactly 2 minutes. I pick their own syllabus, so it's all automatic. Don't bother with your own syllabus. You can still do what you want. You won't regret getting access. There was a time basically when paying for outside AP Course was a must just because of prep. Now you can prep in subjects you have no expertise with all those materials available. My kid even found their videos very useful.

I am so glad to see your review. We often wonder here if they are any good, and your review confirms my suspicions. I am going to guess people who find UC Scout good are the same ones who seem to like online platforms with what I call “click away” education.

It’s the easiest AP there is. I know kids who got a 5 on that exam in 9th grade who could never pull another five in anything else in older grades. It’s the very opposite of brutal Along with Environmental Science. I have no idea who Laura K is, but maybe you shouldn’t listen to her. Editing to add that you really need to understand what graders want, so make sure you look at rubrics well so you can teach how they expect answers. My DS found stats really frustrating because as easy as it was, he had to state the obvious all the freaking time. Drove him nuts. So I am editing this again just to say that the point of it all is your boy can totally do it. If a typical 9th grader can pull a five in that exam, your gifted boy can more than do it in 8th grade.

I have never heard of them. Any reviews?

No, that would be a disaster. That would be an equivalent of putting him into middle school almost. Younger kids. Totally humiliating in addition to an absolute waste of a year academically. Worst idea ever. The better idea is to apply to college early. I don’t know how this thread became about me. I am sorry. I don’t really want to talk about this anymore. 😞

Yes 😞 That’s the problem. If online was working, we wouldn’t be in a hole.

So basically they would put him into English 9, AP Human Geo, Honors Bio (AP not available unless you took their 9th grade honors bio). No option of AP English unless you finish their English 9 and 10. Math isn’t an issue. They won’t let him take any APs (history, electives, social sciences) because those are for grades 11 and 12 here but he will have a standing of a 9th grader. They suck.

He hates zoom and all things online. Hates. That’s the point. He has plenty of those lined up because we have no other choice, but it’s precisely what we were hoping to avoid.

What difference does it make if we pay $800 for a PAH AP Computer Science class that is online or nothing for a CC class for the same content? We are only taking what we would otherwise outsource to PAH.

Of course not. In fact they aren’t an education at all if you ask me. They are however the only possible in person (and therefor social) option locally. 😕or they were before they turned into Khan Academy.

That would be a dream come true, but ours won’t do it. In fact our district won’t even talk to you until your child is fully enrolled. I know they won’t do it because some of our friends tried just that.

It’s more complicated than that. I mean he needs to graduate as well sooner rather than later, so shortchanging him on education (the part he excels at) at the expense of a menial job that won’t bring any quality human friendships just to be out of the house won’t tilt equations to his benefit. It will just sink him in the area he is good at basically reducing his longer term options at the expense of dubious short term gain. I have one think potentially brewing, but it depends again on what will be allowed indoors. We will survive, hopefully. 😉

Therapy and pray our CC will bring in person learning in the Spring. That doesn’t fix his problems, but it’s a tremendous help. He has been working in person past two months and the change is very noticeable. It’s not a situation we can keep going forward sadly. I am glad we opted for work as opposed to online camp. I might have better options next year (potentially). It’s this year we need to survive somehow.

Well the advice is appreciated from everybody experienced or not but sadly not helpful at all. 😞

But maybe not necessarily with mental illness and teens.

Just as I was saying China pulled off a miracle, here we go, an outbreak in 5 provinces. https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-high-alert-delta-outbreak-140800790.html

I think what I was trying to say is when you are in a hole, climbing seems impossible. So telling an agoraphobe that going to a park with people is the thing to do isn’t helpful. Similarly telling a person with severe anxiety to create groups isn’t helpful either. I won’t go into specific issues here given the privacy concerns, but let’s just say I miss them in elementary school when I could be in a driving seat.

No, no classes at PS. CC was the only option here. Nothing we can find for his age group now. Trust me. We are looking. Also you know deeper you sink, harder to step out. I am afraid honestly.

Not without leaving DH and DS, who will now have to be driven to school daily.

He is homeschooled. Public schools will have to take all kids, but they don’t have to give them credit for any work done as a homeschooler. So they will take my kid, but will not allow him to take courses as an 11th grader. He will be in freshman courses. Public school is face to face. That’s why I put another kid in as a 9th grader. But I don’t have options for my 11th grader.

Yes, but you could take your job with you. 😉 Yes we are tied to here permanently. I can’t imagine a situation where we could move anytime before we are done paying for college for kids. That will be 8 more years.

They will put my junior into 9th grade.