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I feel like I have learned so much having gone through the high school planning phase with my oldest. I learned so much about what to do from the amazing and knowledgeable Hive, but on many levels I had to go through it first to really know. I think that for many, jumping straight into AP Chemistry is doable, but just sharing for others who may read this thread later, I think it would have really helped to have had an intro course. So, all that is just to say that, we would love to take advantage of this in the next year or two with DS2!
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How do you all feel about social media, cell phones, email, and respecting your older teen's privacy? Especially when they are almost 18, at some point we have to trust that they are going to make good decisions. Yet, there is so much research about the developing teenage brain, and so many news stories about the pressures teens feel today with social media. Where do you think the line is? Do you ever ask to see their accounts? Do you just talk about it a lot? It is such a different world than it was when I was a teenager. Yet, I am really feeling the pressure of not messing this up. I want to make sure I am still being a good parent, yet I also feel like I want to respect my teen's privacy.
Any words of wisdom from those with older teens who have recently traversed this path in the age of Snapchat and Facebook?
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Hope you have a speedy recovery! Count us in as being interested for 2018 or 2019! My first son jumped straight into AP Chemistry with Mr. M. at PAHS, and I would love to give my next child a little more of a lead-in course!
Thank you for thinking of doing this for us! :hurray:
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Thanks for all of this great information and details and tips! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much to everyone who replied! To be honest, the flights I could find were not that much cheaper on Spirit than something like JetBlue or Southwest, so it doesn't sound like it will be worth the savings in this case. Especially the part about getting stranded! I have had a flight canceled twice already this year and that is never fun.
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Hi,
I have read quite a few negative reviews about Spirit, mostly complaints about there being lots of additional charges for carryons and even small purses, but I was curious if anyone here has ever flown with them. What is your opinion on them?
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Thanks! Yes, when I say clothes I am talking about things like LL Bean snowpants and winter coats that are in like new shape, and hiking boots that were never worn, stuff that is in really good shape and would be the exact same if someone bought it new today.
What about homeschooling books and curriculum? I've got stuff like Life of Fred, AoPS and similar that we are ready to pass on, too.
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I have never liked to do yard sales, because for me, they always turn out to be a lot of work with very little return. So I gave up on them many years ago and I donate everything. However, I am now downsizing substantially and my kids have moved out of the young phase for good, and we have a lot of things in great shape that I'd like to rehome. I would love to try to sell some of the things that are like new and still have value. Where do you like to buy or sell things like clothes, curriculum, winter coats, etc., online?
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Editing and publishing job prospects are declining, not increasing. Some of that is due to the significant decrease in print publishing with the huge increase in online publishing, and some of it is being outsourced and automated more and more.
A good place to look at job prospects is the website for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
All of these things are so hard to know. I mean, we still need history teachers and editors and librarians, it's just that you've got to be at the top of your field and have a lot of luck, like being in the right place at the right time, to secure employment. And if you lose your job, it's going to be harder to find a new one.
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Yay, Creekland!! So happy and relieved for you and him!! He absolutely deserves that and will be amazing!
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My grandmother's house, the house that my mom grew up in, had split level stairs, and a little tiny room under the stairs, with a little set of double doors and everything. I always wanted to play in there! But it was always full of Christmas decorations and other stuff!!
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I am so, so glad this has a happy ending!!! As I read the beginning of this thread, my heart just sank for you. I feel so lucky that we have a supportive school for AP exams. In the beginning, I was worried, because I had heard people say that our district wasn't too supportive of homeschoolers. And in fact, our superintendent is fairly outspoken that he does not agree with homeschooling. However, our experiences with the folks at the main office handling all exams, like APs, PSAT, etc., have been so easy. They have been kind, straightforward, and helpful and we haven't had a problem. I am very grateful, after reading so many horror stories here, for the fact that they have worked with us so easily.
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Great story, happypamama! Glad it all had a happy ending! It helps to know that we are often right where we are supposed to be! (Even at times when we aren't so sure!) :grouphug:
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That's a good point. When he does practice tests, he should do multiple ones together to see how that goes. I am thinking chem, physics, and math might all be too much in a row. But likely math and one or the other could be paired.
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How many times is "too many" to take the SAT? We are trying to balance out the remaining SAT dates before college applications are due. We did absolutely no standardized testing until AP classes. (Not an approach I recommend to anyone!) So, taking these standardized tests has involved some practice just getting used to timing and things like that. It wasn't a huge learning curve, but there are definitely advantages to having test-taking practice. Once you've had one real-life practice, would it be better to just continue doing test prep and practice tests on your own until you feel like you are ready to take the "real thing" again? Or does it help to take it a few times? Is three too many? I feel like even though some schools says they accept the Score Choice thing, if you do that, aren't they going to think you might be trying to hide the fact that you took the test 10 times? I don't know, I am sure I am overthinking this!
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When I was trying to find Life of Fred books used, everything I found was literally only a few dollars cheaper than buying them brand new! I thought that was really odd! I bought them brand new anyway because it was only a few dollars more. I agree with the other posts though. I think there are just certain things that might sell more quickly and go for higher.
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Now, twenty years after I chose the school, it became very apparent why it had been the right choice, but that has nothing to do with this thread at all.
Don't leave us hanging! :lurk5:
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It might be cheaper to ship him a small box of the little stuff, like silverware, can opener, dish cloths, etc., if you have extra of that kind of stuff around your house, than buying it all new.
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Just throwing this out there, but have they checked into something like a long term airbnb?
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Darn. I was excited to look until I started digging. Most of these are either bible colleges with very limited majors, specialty schools (like Art Institutes for profit) or designed for a specific ethnic group.
With where we are, we would choose CC over those.
Hopefully there are better choices outside of our area but I didn't have a chance to look and probably won't spend much time as we don't really have the funds for the private colleges that are further away with 2 kids in college at the same time.
There are actually quite a few good Virginia public universities that have score optional policies. James Madison University is now test-optional as of next year, with no GPA cutoffs.
http://admissionsintel.com/james-madison-university-goes-test-optional-for-2017-2018/
Christopher Newport, George Mason, and Virginia Commonwealth University all have test-optional if you have a certain GPA in high school.
I think most of those policies are not relevant for homeschoolers, but since your DS is in school, he might be able to find a really good school with test-optional policies.
Hugs to you, though. I can absolutely relate. I didn't finish my Master's degree, thinking I could go back later. But life happened, and going back later was way harder than I thought it would be. It limited me in what I could do, earning potential, and flexibility. I absolutely believe that college is not for everyone, and that there are many paths to a successful life, but having a marketable degree that gives you specific skills can be a great security blanket.
I would try to focus on getting him to choose some goals, and not just go to college for the experience, but to learn marketable skills that will give him a specific job. What about an allied healthcare career, like radiology tech, or a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)? The PTA program is an associate degree and you might be able to start off at CC and then transfer to that, sidelining the test. Though all of those types of careers have standardized tests for certification or boards.
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Also, the scores reported on the common data set are for students who actually enrolled; stats for the students who were admitted will presumably be higher, since OSU's yield is about 30-35% and many of the higher stats students would have had higher ranked options. Ditto for PSU.
ETA: looked up the stats for admitted (versus enrolled) students at OSU last year (not the current admissions): top 25% was 32 ACT, 1430 SAT, which are both 97th%.
What is meant by yield of 30-35%? Does that mean the percentage of admitted students that actually accept and enroll?
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It goes the other way as well. As one admin from MIT said to me three years ago, "We are not interested in some 4H kid from a Podunk agricultural area no one has ever heard of before." I had called to ask some general admission questions for one of our boys, and the admin asked for our zip code. Clearly he typed it into Google maps or some demographic tracking program or something. It was obvious the conversation was over at that point.
What?? They actually said that? Wow, that is crazy. What were you calling about?
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Congratulations to your DD!!
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I struggle sometimes with time management myself, as an adult! I am really busy and have a lot of commitments, like most people I am sure. We have been making daily schedules so we can both see what needs to get done each day. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, because things can take longer than you expect. The planner idea was always a little hard here, because DS has several classes online, that each have their own suggested schedule of what needs to be done each day. So to copy all of that down into a planner for the whole week would be hard. There wouldn't be enough room unless you have a big planner with a whole page for each day. That's kind of what we made, a planner page per day, and just printed it out each day so it could be checked off. I feel like we could continue to improve on it though. I think that mostly it is a mindset, because no matter what method you use, you have to actually use it. That's the hardest part! Making time to actually use the tools!
If you want to be digital, you could use something like Google calendar and schedule the day out that way.
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Recently, there was a thread on here where people were saying stats wasn't acceptable as a solid math course. But, maybe that is just for people who want to major in math or engineering? For years, I've seen people list calculus and then stats in their plans and I always thought we might do that. And maybe we still will.
The advice I have read here is that, if your student is on a STEM path and will need to continue with Calculus in college, that you might not want to take a whole year off of Calculus. So, if you did BC in 11th, then Stats in 12th, then when you get to college, a lot of the Calculus you learned won't be fresh in your brain. That makes sense to me. Might not be an issue for everyone, though.
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AIM Academy Chem and Physics Intro
in High School and Self-Education Board
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Does anyone have any experience with this class or this instructor?
https://debrabell.com/product/introduction-chemistry-physics/
We have had excellent experiences with their French classes, but that was because the teacher was super. Anyone taken this before?
Thanks!