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ClRC are really good.
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On 6/16/2023 at 3:07 PM, TreeLoft said:
I feel overwhelmed with 9th grade English options and need input!
Ds will be 13, a STEM kid who also has a true love for literature, and who is a willing, but weak writer.
In past years, in addition to grammar and vocabulary, we have interwoven some writing with our history studies. He also completed Wordsmith Apprentice, took Lost Tools of Writing 1 at our co-op, and is finishing up Cover Story now.
At this point, I need him to be responsible to someone else for his writing who can give strong feedback and help him grow as a thinker and communicator.What I’m looking for:
Online, preferably live class with discussion
Strong teacher feedback, clear instruction and assignments and easily accessible
Lit & Comp or just writing
Not interested in IEW or Bravewriter
So far I’ve looked at:
Excelsior Classes
Aim Academy (Debra Bell)
The Potter’s School
Center for Lit
Any experience with these or others you’ve loved?
My 14 year old used CLRC last year and it was excellent. We are going back to do English 3 with Lantern this year but only because the time zone differences are a pain and he is not really that fussed. We might flip back again next year. He has ASD and while he can write he needs a lot of time and support to initiate ideas so we are doubling back and forward a bit - we did Lantern English 1& 2, CLRC LA3 then we are doing Lantern English 3. After that we will decide whether to keep going up or go sideways to CLRC Intro to Lit and Comp. Which is way more than you need to know but I loved CLRC and he will keep doing their Latin despite the time zone issues.
ETA. I love the look of Farrar’s classes too but they wouldn’t suit my kids unfortunately.
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On 6/24/2023 at 10:53 AM, BandH said:
My rising 8th grader has asked to home school for high school. I'm pretty sure my eventual answer will be no, but I want to give it serious thought.
If you're in this situation, either a single parent who works outside the home, or both parents work outside the home, how does it work? What are the positives and negatives?
I am a single parent who works full time and have home schooled ds14 since he was 8 and ds16 since he was 15. BUT only about 1/3 of my hours are outside the home AND I am dealing with a more forgiving system than that in the US AND my kids are very academically able. Even so ds16 is struggling to maintain any sense of discipline and I have told him I am going to sit with him and work through his most important subjects until he becomes better regulated. Luckily DS14 after some very rough earlier years (it took until he was 10 to get the specialists to take me seriously and do an ASD assessment and after 3 years at school he was pretty messed up) is able to just work his way through a list on the whiteboard without much assistance.
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Cost. Plus there are a lot of good courses - self paced, on line synchronous and in person.
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On 6/27/2023 at 5:53 AM, Vida Winter said:
I would be extremely reluctant to pull your oldest out of school since he is already halfway through. In our family, it was all or nothing - two kids were homeschooled all the way through and one went from homeschooling to public school starting in 8th grade. The differences we found when applying for scholarships were significant. Most academic scholarship opportunities in our state were simply not available to homeschoolers. We had to shoot for high ACT/SAT scores to obtain merit money. If you are thinking of community college credits, the high school probably has an arrangement that can allow your son to take these at school.
Another significant consideration would be the change from a brick-and-mortar school to homeschool. Most of us had many years of getting used to this when our kids were young and had a lot of time to ease into it. The fact that you work full-time would be a deal-breaker for me. I think it's too much to ask of kids to manage that much on their own. It was hard to find the time to do everything we needed to and I did not work outside the home.
I know that brick-and-mortar school has its disadvantages and there may be other issues that you have not mentioned. I just don't want to make it seem like homeschooling is easy-breezy in high school -- it really takes a lot of time and effort on the part of parents and students.
Yes. My 16 year old came home last year and is finding it harder to self direct than his 14 year old brother who has been home 6 years. And in NZ the system is a lot more flexible in that he can return for the last year without problems provided he has maintained a suitable level and still pass university entrance and go on as if he was at high school all the way. Plus he can get his qualifications with a combination of methods at home. On the down side I can’t graduate him or write a transcript, he has to sit nation wide assessments.
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In my country the only people who would do any kind of arts at high school would be people who loved it or planned a career in it. A Stem student would be doing maths, physics, chemistry, biology and English up to the equivalent of 11th grade. They would then likely drop one science so they could do Calculus and Statistics in their final year as maths splits at that point. Or they might drop English.
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My son did 2 classes with CLRC last uear and the were great. But the combination of high prices once the exchange rate has been factored in and really awkward time once the time zone is factored in has resulted in us deciding yo go back to Lantern English for writing and just do Latin with CLRC next year.
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On 2/1/2023 at 4:16 PM, FreyaO said:
My kid is too young, but I never used that kind of detail myself. Seems a sheer torture.
Me too.
I would accept.
10-A =9 (or whatever it was)
-A = -1
A= 1
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Put the babies in the bedroom to sleep while keeping MIL busy somewhere else.
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On 4/21/2023 at 7:01 AM, TheAttachedMama said:
She just finished a year at Integritas. My son has taken two classes at Integritas, so I am very familiar. But in both cases, my kids have probably spent about 20 mins per day on the class (if that!). Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Cindy, and I have sent a lot of people her way. And her classes work well for a STEM focused kid because they are so light....but I think we may need more this next year.
I am using CLRC to shore up my son's writing. He is at the higher end of the age range but so are others. He has ASD and he struggles to make decisions about what to wrote so I still have to do a lot of support for the actual composition but it is working. He is about to turn 14 and just finishing LA 3. He will do the introduction to composition and high school one over the next two years then have a few years more to practice. We also used and liked Lamtern English but the live classes are good for him. I do use short Lantern English classes for his older brother.
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Mine too. It is 26 months old so hoping to get it fixed under the CGA.
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At 7 my youngest liked Roald Dahl, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Nanny Piggins. Narnia was a year or two later.
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Book for little kids?
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10 hours ago, Katy said:
Don’t use that appliance again. Replace it. And I’d turn off the breaker to that room before yanking the piece of plug out with pliers, in case some other appliance is wonky in your house and there’s current in the wire.
Yes. Don't use the appliance or the outlet until it is sorted. If you van cut power to the outlet do so. If not cover it with electrical tape.
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On 1/20/2023 at 11:59 AM, WTM said:
I don’t see how they could simultaneously push her to drop the honors track while also recommending AoPS. Perhaps they don’t really know the content and teaching / learning style of AoPS?
If the class is based on Dolciani, could you get a copy of Dolciani and help her review material before her big exams?
I know my kid fatigues easily for tasks that require high attention to detail (like keeping track of negatives, etc). So shorter homework sets - no big deal. Longer tests can be hard though. Could you ask the teacher to provide her with extra time for tests? I also worked with my child to get into the habit of double checking all his math work.
You may also consider evaluation for learning differences or neurodevelopmental differences. I don’t know what is “standard” for 8th graders (in terms of expected types of numbers of errors), but my other child didn’t struggle with these things.
I saw a reveiw of AOPS by a teacher once. She recommended it for remedial students due to the lack of "real life problems". So I am not sure teachers get AOPS.
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Ds13 did the most of the CK12 kindle book of grade 6 maths and some NZ units aimed at our year 7/8/9. He has a couple of chapters to finish as we got behind at some point. This year is will be in the equivalent of G8 so will do Algebra 1 straight after.
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My condolences.
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I would go with a desktop. They are almost indestructible and you can set them up in a public space. But I have the Logitech bluetooth keyboard with the slot you put the tablet in and it works with my firetab, android phone and computer. It has a disl with 3 settings for 3 devices.
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14 hours ago, Amethyst said:
This is so beyond tragic. Not just this. Of course this. But ALL the mass shootings. All the shooting. All the guns. We feel so helpless. Is there really and truly NOTHING we can do in this country to decrease this? This can happen ANYWHERE! When they put people on the news and they say, “I never thought it would happen here” I just shake my head and think “where have you been?” cuz it’s happening all over the US…cities, rural,suburbs, schools, clubs, streets, stores…
Things have been changed before. It requires a really high level of sacrifice from those who do it plus a certain personality and skill set. Most of us are better suited to be the support people of the chosen person
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On 11/24/2022 at 2:47 AM, mommyoffive said:
I hate it. This is my biggest reason for wanting to move out of the US. It is disgusting that all these shootings have happened and nothing is done about it.
The only way to change it is to stay and fight.
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One day you will miss it.
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I could see some moron who just said teddy bear bags = kids without looking. It is like my grandparents generation cartoon = kids and not thinking that South Park and the Simpsons mat be different than what they are thinking of. But not the legal brief bit - that had to be someone making a point.
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I use Derek Owen's with the parent grading option.
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I no longer have to buy school uniform.
Gap after 2 years Algebra...
in High School and Self-Education Board
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Though the self paced pre algebra didn't do that too much. How about AOPS c&P or NT? Or the free English one whose name escapes me.