Her choices and yours might change in 4 years. If you call her 9th now, and later decide that it should have been 8th, that is a difficult change to make. If you call her 8th now, but two years from now she starts to look like it should have been 9th, you can either bump her up a grade or just have her do 3 years of high school (I've known several kids who graduated PS high school after 3 years). Especially given that she's in pre-algebra, I wouldn't call her 9th now.

It depends on where the fetus attaches. Occasionally, if the fetus has attached somewhere in the abdomen, the pregnancy can be successful. The survival rate of babies is not great (according to Wikipedia on abdominal pregnancies, the mortality rate could be 40-95%, which is an admittedly huge range), and birth defects are frequent because of not having the amniotic fluid buffer.

One of the things that bugs me the most about Doug Phillips is his stance on ectopic pregnancies. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/life/a_declaration_of_life.aspx Quoting from the site: "...those theories which justify the killing of the unborn child on the basis of the circumstances of conception (as in the case of rape and incest), or even the life of the mother (ectopic pregnancies) are completely false because they are based on unbiblical and humanistic ethics, unbiblical definitions of “self defense†theory, and a rejection of the personhood of the child..." This bothers me immensely, as a tubally implanted ectopic pregnancy has absolutely no chance of life. You are only postponing the inevitable death of the child for a few extra weeks and then quite possibly adding the life of the mother into it.

I'd never heard of people who wore them under their pjs :D My mother claimed it was to allow the affected area to air out. She wouldn't let us wear undies to bed. :P

Yeah, I'd look into boxers or larger panties.

Yes. This. Also there's a huge difference between burning your own books and someone else's books. There's a big difference between saying 'that's disgusting, I wish they hadn't printed that' and 'there oughtta be a law!'

Are you sure that she wasn't told to do it, and got a bit overenthusiastic? Maybe she was only supposed to cut off the foreskin :D

Sure ... Lorena Bobbitt?

What about doing what Susan C. mentioned earlier -- a college-level intermediate algebra class (redoing algebra 2, essentially) and transcripting it as Intermediate Algebra? This would have the added benefit that, as she will almost certainly require a general education math course at university, the algebra will be fresh in her mind and she will be best positioned for success in college courses. She could also try the Teaching Textbooks Precalculus course which has a lot of Algebra 2 review. Honestly with a 440-Q she's probably not ready for College Algebra, which would have been my other suggestion.

Do you need to go by the public school standards when you're a homeschooler? Anyway, I'd choose a basic course in statistics, and if the mother struggles in math I'd also try to take it online.

Also adding: As of right now, you don't have the mathematical prerequisite for AP Chemistry (Algebra 2 is almost always a prerequisite -- FLVS doesn't have AP chem listed, and Keystone lists Alg 2.) This is a prerequisite because they expect you to use, understand, and apply Algebra 2 in AP Chemistry. It's very difficult to pick it up as you go along unless you're very talented mathematically.

Spectrum really isn't an AP course. It's a college-prep course that would prepare you very well to *take* a college course (which is what AP is). You'd have to follow it up with a college-level chemistry text to make it really AP. I don't really like the idea of jumping into Saxon at Alg 2 after not having used it before; I'd be more inclined to recommend something like Lial's. Furthermore, if you felt that you really didn't understand Alg 1, I'd take some time to review that before starting Alg 2 as it is pretty foundational.

In Search of Honor -- check into it, the Amazon reviews seem to indicate that it's somewhat Christian and it's published by an imprint of BJU. Some books that I loved, loved, loved. The Door in the Wall I, Juan de Pareja Strawberry Girl (although this would also fit just fine in American History if you're overfull this year) The Twenty-One Balloons (just a rollicking good and silly romp) The Genevieve Foster books (those lived in the bathroom for a long time, great place to read a two-page spread)

I used to see them at the laundromat a lot. I have to say that I haven't seen any in a while, but someone showed me a new one recently -- mean momma? I was astonished at how unspeakably vile it was. It seems every time you get 'he can't get worse', he does. Don't go looking for it if you're not ready to puke.

This is beautiful. I love it.

Does this mean if I defeat them in a magical duel ... ? :D

It's not as good as Greek/Norse Myths but I have and like it. It's a summary of the lifestyle habits of trolls according to Norse mythology.

One of the neat things about Katherine is that there are so many ways to shorten it. :D

:iagree: I reposted this on my facebook, I love Mrs. Johanson.

:iagree: This wrecks my eating plan every time. I get to late afternoon and I'm dragging and my mouth starts watering and ... ahhh. I gave up on quitting and started buying the 8 oz cans and doing one a day. Oh well.

There's nothing mathematically wrong with what he's doing, and it's more efficient for mental math imho. I do something similar myself. I know and can demonstrate the standard algorithm, but I almost never use it. For example, with 2457 - 1989, I'd do 2457 - (2000-11) = 2457 - 2000 + 11 = 457 + 11 = 468. It also sounds like he has a great understanding of place value :D

They're deliberately bad -- I bet you could come up with some really insanely wrong physics problems after having instructed it and seen a lot of errors. FWIW, my favorite one was in the "bad puns" category -- a hard habit to break :D

Can you throw 'em o'er your shoulder like a Continental soldier?

Scoring 7th grade usually does not mean that he has learned 7th grade math. It means that he has answered the questions he was given as well as a 7th grader would have. In other words -- he has learned what he has learned very well, but putting him in a 7th grade math book would be inappropriate. The language arts skills at a 3rd grade level indicate that a skip to 4th would be sub-optimal. Even in math, the necessary output level will increase as the grade level increases. His reading on the 5th grade level is good -- but to be *placed* higher he would have to produce the output as well. Opinion: I would afterschool in math if at all possible, and keep him reading good books on his own, but I would not place him in 4th grade. You really don't want to take a bright little kid and move him up to where he feels behind. Challenged, yes, but not *behind*.

Lol -- my cars have all had names that I assigned, but SO names the computers -- we have Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Glenmorangie, and Murphy (the laptop).