She could have done a Rotary year abroad but turned it down. My dad and uncle were both Paul Harris fellows and their club really wanted her to be their outbound student next year. She’s is doing a language immersion program this summer, though, covid- pending. She’s done a lot of service through the years. She knows what she want to do next. She’s always been a bit of an old soul and is ready for college. She did a summer program at her school and already has friends there. She’s our caboose kid and I wish I had a reason to keep her another year, but it would do more harm than good.

I agree with Farrar- We went with early grad, in part because dd was reaching a point where she couldn’t do more as a high schooler. The college she’s attending has a significant # of kids who come in with sophomore level credits who can’t apply a lot of them. It’s a STEM school. It doesn’t do anything to improve their admission and they end up just losing a year of work. So depending on the area of study she’s interested in, I think it’s best to either go deep or leave high school early. A bunch of repeated classes would definitely be a disaster for my kiddo.

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I taught Lightning Lit in Co-op for American Lit. I dropped Uncle Tom's Cabin and added a couple of glencoe guides. I used the old "America Reads" anthologies for British and World. I haven't see the American literature version, but I like that series.

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Monday it was just her and one other girl for Calc BC so they moved it back to the high school. I had to laugh that one of her last days of homeschool... was at the local high school. The bells about drove her batty.

I hope it works out. I get that he probably just wants to be done though!

Brain fog and gastro issues are not good close to exams! I hope he feels better soon. Trader Joe’s GLUTEN FREE pancake mix is the only new thing she’d had. I’m super mad because she’s so careful. It got me too, and my symptoms are different, so we know it’s gluten. Lesson learned: no new products, even “GF” ones, close to exams. Definitely sending a dorm freezer stuffed with ready to eat home cooked food to college with her.

My Celiac got glutened a week ago yesterday. She was very sick this time. APs and DE finals all last week and today. I don’t think she’s 100% yet. Fingers crossed your DS can do the late test date!

Some schools do require some level of adherence to an approved syllabus if it a course taught by several faculty members. I would expect exams and lectures to line up some, though.

My dd took micro with the big metropolitan high school. They do all of their testing offsite. I thought it was a Covid thing, but I think it's just how they do it. Our county owns and uses an old school building, so they do it there. She only had 12 testing with her- and she knew 5 of them, which was kind of funny.

Micro on Friday. No class just self study… that she started three weeks ago. Not holding my breath on that one. Calc BC on Monday. She’s done Calc 1 & 2, but target school can be picky about transfer credits.

Of course saving for college can and should happen as early as possible aside from any conversations about merit aid. Almost nobody goes for 100% free, and working your way through college isn’t realistic the way that it once was. We had money in a very small 529 account that we literally forgot about for 10 years (switched to an in-state one). Just by letting it sit there it had increased to triple its value. Each of our older kids got a semester of in-state tuition out of it. I had it in some higher risk investments because of the timeline, so it could have gone the other way, but time is your friend with investing for college.

This is true. We started early with financials just because we were realistic about what kind of aid would be available for all of our kids (almost none for our middle class small business owning family). Even so, merit isn’t something you can do anything about until high school, and even other strategies (like a parent working for a tuition remission or exchange school) won’t matter until high school or even the last couple years before college. Don’t steal the joy from middle school by worrying about college. Getting ready for high school work is enough!

As someone who did have a kid start high school work in 6th grade, I still say you are worrying too early. The gap between my youngest and next oldest kid is 10 years. There was a huge difference in the application process between my 3rd kiddo and my 4th. Enjoy middle school, error on the side of rigorous for high school, keep good records and don’t worry about it at all until you’re coming up on 8th grade. At that point, make sure you know your state’s law’s for high school and glance at the colleges your kiddo it interested in to see what their requirements are.

We used MP’s Geography 3 along with the third Human Odyssey book. We actually called it Contemporary World History. Geography 3 assumes students have been exposed to geography previously, so we did need to park a couple times to master a section (Africa!).

My food allergy kiddo will take a dorm-sized freezer and her own pots/ dishes. ETA- definitely looking for any "BTDT" advice from other food allergy dorm families. We already have towels (swimmer). I guess a foam mattress topper is a must for her school. I think I'm limiting her to 14 days worth of clothes or she'll never do laundry. Ever. She hasn't found a roommate yet, even though she has already made lots of friends. She's an early riser and apparently all the girls who are early risers and otherwise fit her ZeeMee profile are much more religious than she is, so she's treading carefully.

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If he's considering engineering of some sort, that's rarely offered as a transfer option. There are definitely engineering design -type programs in Ohio, probably near you. Any ABET-accredited engineering program is going to be rigorous, so he most definitely would not be bored. Be cautious of engineering-anything with technology in the name. I'm at a school that offers that for students who can't do the math for regular engineering, and they often end up in careers that could be done with a two-year degree. Celiac. I have one of those. Make your list of schools that work every way else and then eliminate those that can't accommodate his dietary need. Join the FAACT parent page on Facebook. Celiac is not something colleges accommodate well for because nobody dies from a single exposure, even though my kiddo is out of the game for days. Definitely talk to the foodservice/ dietician when you tour. As you know, "made without gluten ingredients" is not necessarily Celiac-friendly. For social reasons, I felt strongly that she should be able to have some meals in the cafeteria, both because she will not have time to cook every meal (athlete/ engineering) and for social reasons. We settled on a school that can can keep her safe even if the choices are minimal. She'll have access to a shared kitchen and probably a small freezer in her room.

Has she done the third level of WWS? If so, she probably could move on to writing with feedback and not necessarily as much direct instruction. I found LL fine for early high school at 2 LL guide books/ year, but we usually had a little writing or grammar (Warriner's) going along side it. I also think the Windows to the World is a good suggestion for 9th grade. Power in Your Hands has good instruction and has a similar world view to Notgrass. We also liked and used Rhetoric Alive (also a semester/ book). You could mix and match the Rhetoric and LL semesters. Rhetoric Alive is more fun with at least one other person.

Has your 14 year old had any writing instruction? LL doesn’t have any explicit writing instruction, although is does have some writing helps.

I did this about 10 or so years ago, but I just stopped liking Khan Academy after the early algebra topics. I finished College Algebra years ago, but I’d really like to find something I could work through for geometry- calculus that was as motivating as Khan was for me up to algebra stuff. I worked through Forester algebra, stopped to get a Master’s… and just never got back to it.

If you do that start at the Wind in the Willows level and guides. The upper level guides assume student know the content/ lit analysis, ect, taught in those.

Memoria Press has lit guides for these. They sell the lesson plans for individual books (really just schedules for the lit guides they sell). Anyhow, the number of weeks they have to cover them are listed here https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/individual-literature-lesson-plans/ I’ve covered the Odyssey and Aeneid in 4 weeks each, but the pace was brisk.