I would keep asking other school systems for help. Are you willing to drive to have him take the AP test somewhere they are willing to accommodate? Would you be willing to pay for an additional proctor for the school system? I'm assuming he has accommodations in place through the College Board. Personally I'd drive a distance to make it happen. I assume you think accommodations are important or you wouldn't have asked. I suppose you have to weigh the options - test without accommodations or keep looking for some place willing to work with you. As others have said, you don't have to report the scores.

I agree - check out starting your 12 year old in year 7. Starting with year 7, MEP is broken up into topic chapters. This makes it easy to focus on one topic or skip another.

Don't rule out all online classes. Many do not have a specific meeting time, but give assignments to be done through the week with deadlines, but the students can come and go as they please.

I think you could do the history portion of core 100 with any literature you want (including core 400). Adding documentaries/primary sources would significantly bump the level of history as well.

I've listened to a few of the Andrews talks. It is obvious that they are Christians, but it's barely discussed with many books. If it is an author or book that it is a Christian worldview then it plays more prominently in the discussion. I don't find them "pushy" at all about their faith. I think if is 1) a book you don't mind your kids reading and 2) you don't mind them hearing some references to the Christian faith then I don't think you'd mind their teaching at all. If you want a sample of how a class is run by Adam Andrews, then you could buy one of the dvd courses and sample it.

It'd work for me.

I did VT with my 9th grader. He did fantastic with it. It helped that he understood the why and was motivated to get it done.

HUGS!!! Way to go standing up for what you feel is right. Don't get stressed out over academics for the remainder of the year. School by going to the library - read anything. Go on nature walks - observe and talk. Go to the park. Work in the garden. There is tons of learning to be done through life.

Rainbow Resource Amazon Home Science Tools I also buy from AoPS, Mardel, and various online vendors for specific curriculum.

I agree that a high review rate is very useful for my students (at home), but I can see how it can be a hindrance to someone who only wants to do geometry etc.

Lots of handholding. No internet (at all) if work not done well - but do everything you can to help him get it done well.

I would tend to use what you have or buy the missing books from the new core. It sounds like you might not want to adapt the core, but you can adapt anything, and history goes with history so you'd be good there. It'd be fine to get the new schedule and adapt it to use what you have and/or get the missing books from the library.

My 15 year old is simply reading MOH4 (and retaining the information wonderfully).

It is designed as stand alone program, but it is not completely published so it is hard to use as a stand alone yet. My daughter has done each book as it has come out. The pace of publication made it where it couldn't be her primary curriculum. My 8 year old is now doing Beast 3 - I'll probably use it as his primary math and supplement it as necessary. Beast would not have been necessary to supplement with my oldest, but my daughter would have needed some supplementary work just to add more problems to reinforce. I'm not sure I'll need to supplement it with my youngest, but I'll have to see.

Teaching the Classics is directed at the teacher, but high schoolers could easily do it with you or on their own. It teaches a structure about how to go about analyzing/thinking about literature and gives lots of questions to be asked. I think it is 4 hours of dvd time - I'd recommend doing it together just so you know what it is even if you are not going to discuss literature with them. Teaching the classics is not something you teach daily at all. Windows to the World is a workbook format to teach literary analysis. A motivated student could teach themselves from the teacher guide/sudent guide combo, but I'd recommend doing it with them. This is more like a planned guide through literary analysis. Center for LIt also has online lit classes. I don't remember if next year's books are listed, but my son learned a lot through it. Basically kids read a book a month and then have a monthly discussion online. It is optional if you want to add the writing portion of the class or just discussion.

My son loved learning with Chessmaster. You can set the levels so that you can win. It also has a lot of teaching.

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I was also going to suggest Teaching the Classics. The main dvd courses are directed at how to teach literature - I'd do the course with the parent and students together. There are also several dvd course modeling the method. Ultimately you can learn how to do it and go from there.

FYI - You can get it with free shipping from Ray at Horrible Books.

I would continue to work on anything she misses. I don't think this will fatigue her eyes any more and it's a bad habit that needs to be fixed. My daughter had a remarkable improvement in reading the day she put on new glasses (tiny prescription for reading). She also really needed VT and did it for 30 weeks with great improvement.

My son has accommodations and can finish with extra time. In normal time, he would only be able to finish the math section - nothing with reading. Looking over the samples of the new SAT it looks like the math will have much more reading involved in the problems so I'm not sure if he'd be able to do that in the given time.

I call it scientific notation, and I teach it along high school science. Some of my kids learn it earlier as appropriate.

I call it scientific notation and I teach it with high school science - before if appropriate.

Not sure this is what you are looking for, but I've liked the Bravewriter classes my high school student has taken. You'd have to pick and choose between writing and literature classes - most are 4-6 weeks each. I like to do things more piecemeal, and I think you are looking for something all-inclusive.

Trust your instinct - keep asking questions. I might pursue a speech evaluation.