My son has to prove he has full insurance coverage (or buy the choice through the school) as well as have immunizations before being allowed to register.

If she is taking dual enrollment English, then I don't think she needs additional English work. However, assuming she doesn't dread reading, I don't think it's too hard to add Center for Lit discussion only.

Yes, I do Beast alongside AoPS prealgebra with my daughter. She is very good at math logic, but she needs more drill on the arithmetic side of things (decimals, multiplication, percents etc). She has been doing Beast 5 this year while doing AoPS prealgebra. It has worked well. She has now completed all of the prealgebra book - finishing Beast 5C now and awaiting 5d to be published. She will do Beast 5D and then start AoPS Algebra in the fall. To further confuse her math path, she is very talented visual-spacially. She has also done the first 5 chapters of the AoPS Geometry book (and can do them very well as she has a good enough algebra base and very good geometry skills). The main reason she has done Beast out of order from Prealgebra was simply that it had not been published yet. She did SM, Derek Owens Prealgebra, did Beast as it was published, and then did AoPS Prealgebra (after DO). She is now well-founded and ready to move on to Algebra. (My oldest went straight to Algebra from SM5 and my second sped through prealgebra); my daughter has simply needed more practice to solidify the fundamentals before moving on. Do what works for you child. My little guy will do Beast and then Prealgebra.

Sounds fine to me.

Personally, I'd have my student look at the books and pick which class sounds more interesting.

I agree that they sound like fun classes to combine and I will probably do so in the future with my daughter. My sons have done Center for Lit (without writing) and they could have added another lit class if I was careful not to overload them with writing or other work when they were doing both.

My kids do other grammar/literature on top of Brave Writer. I try to have less other English on top of certain classes, but it's certainly doable if you are flexible.

Plan a day per visit. As suggested above - explore online. You can schedule professors yourself even if it's not offered. When you get there, spend some time wondering around on your own - it gives you a feel for the school and people,

For middle school, Mathcounts is more fun if you can find some people to do it with you. My mathy boy started as an individual as a 6th grader. We then began collecting some friends to do it with him and now I've been coaching a Mathcounts team for seven years. Some great preps: AoPS curriculum Alcumus (haven't actuallly played around with the Mathcounts trainer yet) Mathcount minis (google this - it's a worksheet for each video) Competition math for MIddle School students by James Batterson

DS - Vanderbilt - majoring in computer science and math; primary reason is that he felt like he fit in at Vanderbilt - was only ho-hum about everywhere else he visited.

It's not what most people have done, but I certainly have. Both my boys did AoPS Geometry alongside the AoPS Algebra book. We'd do one chapter of one and then one of the other. My daughter has a much harder time with the algebra skills. She did the first several chapters of the geometry book while doing AoPS Prealgebra. She will continue the geometry book while doing algebra next year. You do need a level of algebra understanding to be able to do the geometry book and occationally there is a problem that requires quadratics in the geometry, but generally they can be combined.

You need algebra one skills to be able to do a good geometry program. It is pretty easy to double up geometry and algebra 2.

I do like Regentrude. We read the books, discuss and add in the same Teaching Co. lecture series. To do it in a year, we read roughly a chapter per week.

Stick with your instinct - you already know this is a poor decision for her.

I'd let him pick. I think any of the choices are fine. If he's interested in Aerospace Engineering, then astronomy or aviation science seems to fit to me.

Agree that it is a school specific question. In my experience, it it often hard to change residency status - it remains what you were admitted as, which is good for you.

I order mine from Ray at Horrible Books.

Start with the Intro to Algebra book. You might skip to the chapter review and see if your student can do them, or simply pick up in the middle of the book. I think it would be difficult to start in the middle even if you've done the previous topics as usually students haven't done them to the same depth.

I did my residency at UK and loved Lexington and the people.

I'd say Algebra 1 is the first 13 chapters and the rest is Algebra 2. There are a few other topics (matrices, parabolas, ellipses) that are not covered but are sometimes covered in algebra 2, sometimes in precalc. As far as the geometry book, it is long and covers geometry much more deeply than most geometry books. My two kids with learning disabilities found the geometry book easier than algebra - both are very visual spacial kids. My other son found them equally difficult. I kept thinking he'd hit a wall with the geometry book and then we'd finish up with something easier, but it never happened and he finished the book. As far as standardized testing, she will have covered almost all the math in the AoPS Intro to Algebra and Geometry books. Will need a little bit more that is covered in precalc.

Brave Writer.

Thanks.

I've used Brave Writer for my student with dysgraphia. The assignments won't change, but they are very good about working with the student at whatever level they are at and trying to move them along.

You have to do what is best for your kids and your family. If that's an accredited diploma, then that is perfectly fine. As homeschoolers, we all take different paths. In general, I think most homeschoolers have the best interests of their students at heart and like public schools, some do very well and others don't. Just because someone says they are a high school graduate (homeschool, public, private) doesn't necessarily mean that they are at the standard that I might expect them to be - I think you have to consider everything.

Landrycrisis - you obviously doubt that a mom-issued diploma carries the same weight as any other diploma which is actually kinda sad to me. If you read here and elsewhere you can find countless stories of students doing just fine in the world with just a mom-issued diploma. Of course, you always have the option of doing something else to back it up but consider both the pros and cons before you do. There will always be people in the world that question things we do, but hopefully, our kids will be judged for who they are and what they can do, and not for who issued their high school diploma.