I don't even know what to respond to on this thread. It truly surprises me to see how out of touch some adults are. I'm sorry, but if you truly think the majority of 17 year olds are oblivious to rape, incest, and general sex, you're a bit deluded. And lesbianism? I'm not even going to start on that. I watched SVU on tv starting when I was about 12. That's about rape, often times explicitly described and even depicted, yet I don't think most of you would consider that pornography. I suppose I just find it very strange how the age of consent in many states is 17, some 16, and in the rest 18, yet people are horrified at the idea of a teenager reading about it first. Maybe I just can't understand it from a mothers perspective but I think I would rather my child be educated about these things before they go off to college and so on. By around that age your kids should be mature enough to handle such subjects.

Thanks for the reply! My state doesn't have anything against it, and I'm not into sports or anything. The only extra curricular I do is Girl Scouts, and this wouldn't hurt that at all. I've never really had friends where we live now that I would be missing by staying another year either. What worries me is what the national merit scholarship requirements say - "Be enrolled full-time as a high school student progressing normally toward completion of high school and planning to enroll full-time in college in the fall following the completion of high school;" It says progressing normally. Would that exclude me if I counted this previous year as 8th grade when it should technically be 9th? I really don't want to mess up my chances for that. Besides that, I've thought about this a lot and my family and I both agree it would be the best option.

I agree the Painless _____ are helpful, as are the books like Don't Know Much About (geography/history/etc.) If you wanted some higher level/more in depth things, saylor.org offers free college level courses that you can do by yourself without much prior knowledge about the subject.

I've never seen any inappropriate ads on tumblr. You can block NSFW blogs with the click of a button in settings and there are multiple extensions to do the same. And it's not as if the rest of the Internet and tv doesn't have adult content...

Have you looked at tumblr? She wouldn't need any personal info for that, you just pick a URL.

3rd through 5th we switched between two teachers, like one who taught math and science and one who taught history and language arts. Then in 6th we had separate teachers for each subject.

My dd has had a laptop since she was in 6th grade. She prefers to hand write most things so she mainly uses it for research and a few free online courses. I also agree with momto2Ns about how most of their friends on Facebook will be at school anyway, and they need to learn to be responsible and diligent.

Considering she's taught herself pre-algebra, algebra, algebra 2, and is now learning advanced mathematics, I don't think she's at a disadvantage at all. I never said I forbid her from asking questions when she needs help, nor did I say this is a method for everyone to use. I simply said not all high schoolers are incapable of working primarily independently.

Hold on, just because your children need supervision doesn't mean all children do. It's not at all bad that they do and I understand why, but my daughter is perfectly capable of teaching herself math with her textbook and she knows if she cheats she will be the one with the problem come psat/sat/college time.

Thank you very much everyone, we'll look these up and see what's the best fit.

My daughter would like to do four years of Latin. She's already done artes latinae level one and two. What books can we do after this? For some reason I thought there were four levels so now I don't know what to use.

I don't think that would be too much. I am also interested in what she would be writing about in Latin and math though.

It's stated in the course. Usually I round it down a bit since she reads fast but since it's college level I decided that would be a fine estimate. The subject is sociology. I'm fine with giving her a half credit, I was just wondering if there could be more. Thank you for the help!

It's the amount of time estimated for the reading, watching lectures, and assignments. I'm sure she can stretch it out a bit more with some studying and such, but my worry is that taking twice as long to do a course would look bad on her college applications. Of course that isn't the only important thing in high school but I don't want it to look like that anyway. Does that make sense?

Does level of course affect how many credits a course is worth? I know 160-180 hours is usually considered 1. My daughter is looking at a course that's 95 hours but college level (she's in 9th). It's not dual enrollment or anything, so does it still count as .5?