As long as you did 3 different history/social studies over HS would satisfy most colleges. Make the 2nd year AP World and the first year some other name. I doubt you could only submit: 2 years World History 1 year some other History when applying

It may bring that "wake up call" where the individual realizes the extent of the problem - I agree in the long run the individual must move away with or without help from the addiction

oldie but goodie: Teenage Zombies Video games have sucked the life out of my kids. BY STEPHEN MOORE Friday, January 4, 2008 12:01 a.m. My new year's resolution is to get my two teenage sons back. They've been abducted--by the cult of Nintendo. I'm convinced that video games are Japan's stealth strategy to turn our kids' brains into silly putty as payback for dropping the big one on Hiroshima. The trouble began last summer when my sons started spending virtually every unsupervised hour camped out in front of the computer screen engaged in multiplayer role games like World of Warcraft and Counterstrike. At the start of this craze, I wrote it off as merely a normal phase of adolescence. I was confident that, at 14 and 16, they would soon be more interested in chasing real-life girls than virtual video hoodlums. Boy, was I wrong. Their compulsion became steadily more destructive. They grew increasingly withdrawn, walking around like the zombies from "Night of the Living Dead." Unless I pried them (forcibly) from the computer, they would spend five or six hours at a time absorbed in these online fantasy worlds. My wife tried to calm me down by observing that "at least they're not out having sex or doing drugs." But how would that be any worse? Both are decent athletes, but their muscles began to atrophy right before our very eyes; their skin tone paled from lack of sunlight. Their idea of playing sports these days is inserting Madden football or the NBA slam-dunk game into our Xbox. We recently considered purchasing the new Nintendo Wii, because at least its games--simulated bowling, snow boarding, guitar playing and motorcycling--require physical activity. Nintendo even advertises this product as good exercise for kids, and I have colleagues who swear that they get a great workout from Wii boxing and skiing. Alas, a new study from the British Health Journal suggest that Wii is no substitute for the real and vigorous outdoor exercise that adolescent boys need. My wife and I aren't entirely inept parents--our 6-year-old seems fairly well-adjusted anyway. Back in October we established for the older boys strict screen-time limits. It was then that we discovered the true extent of their addiction. They ranted and raved and cursed and even threw things--almost as if demons had taken possession of them. These are classic withdrawal symptoms; they craved a fix. When we installed parental controls on the computer, our boys scoffed. It took them about 15 minutes to disable them. We've become so desperate that we may have to get rid of the computers entirely, though that may hamper their school work. It turns out that we're not alone in our predicament. A parent down the street confided to us that his 12-year-old son was so obsessed with video games that he wouldn't take even a three-minute break from gaming to go to the bathroom--with unfortunate results. The other day we saw a kid at church, in a semi-trance, going down the aisle to Holy Communion while clicking on a hand-held Game Boy. Talk about worshiping a false god. This summer the American Medical Association's annual conference debated a proposal to declare excessive video gaming a "formal disorder" in the category of other addictions like alcohol, drugs and gambling. One study released at the AMA conference found that many kids who spend a disproportionate amount of time playinggames "achieve more control and success of their social relationships in the virtual reality realm than in real relationships." I'm not one to blame every human frailty on some faddish psychiatric disorder. But I'm persuaded that computer games are the new crack cocaine. The testimonials from parents of online gamers are horrific: kids not taking showers, not eating or sleeping, falling behind in school. Some parents are forced to send their kids to therapeutic boarding schools, which charge up to $5,000 a month, to combat the gaming addiction. The war lords of the gaming industry tout research on the positive attributes of gaming--and admittedly there are some. One study published this year in Psychological Science finds that gaming improves eyesight. A famous 2004 study by researchers at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, found that video games improve manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination: "Doctors who spend at least 3 hours a week playing video games," the researchers reported, "made about 37% fewer mistakes in laproscopic surgery." Fine. I'll give my sons the joysticks back when they become orthopedic surgeons. In the meantime, what is to be done? I'm not suggesting making the games illegal--we don't need a multibillion-dollar black market in video games. But I am pleading that parents take this social problem seriously and intervene, as my wife and I wish we had done much earlier. November sales for the Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, and the games that go with them, were up a gaudy 52% over last year. In my neck of the woods, Wii's were such hot sellers that they weren't available in the stores at any price. I'm proud to report that we rejected our youngest son's pleas for a PlayStation for Christmas. He pouts that we're the meanest parents in the world. Someday he'll thank us. A mind really is a terrible thing to waste. Mr. Moore is a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/10/30/241449067/how-video-games-are-getting-inside-your-head-and-wallet

good suggestion

recent Agents of SHIELD The Orville

I believe you meant modem try that first (bring it with you) before dropping your internet completely re-starting cable modems are painful but might be well worth it at this point

Would he just go to the library or a friend's house?

interesting that website has nothing about it http://lonepineclassical.com/

Hmm I can understand not being able to say "IB" but your DD would be doing "most challenging program" IMHO. Just explain it on the college application.

I clicked on this thread thinking it was about football!! :lol: I OD on football this time of year - luckily the break starts in February after the Super Bowl. I don't watch much preseason football so I think I am still sane.

1) I just looked at nearby very large school district which has many magnet schools. No scores of any kind on the application so not really different from charter schools here. Only very popular charters use lotteries. Most have some space. The magnets are funded as pure public schools the charters are public but use a different funding scheme. This is AZ YMMV. 2) Typically a parent of a severe special needs child (I am one of them) would avoid charter schools because they must allow admittance but do not have the facilities to handle those children. Many have rules such as dress codes that a special needs student can't really conform to. For example, my other gifted child attended a charter where the students had to wear a tucked-in polo shirt. For my special needs guy this would have been a show-stopper - he can't stand collar shirts and never has it tucked in. I am OK as a taxpayer because AZ gives less per charter student than to pure publics and IMHO this is why. 3) No school I know of in AZ is forced to have multilingual services. And I concur. That is not special ed anyways.

Just curious how much is that CC(s) for out of state students? I say go for it - if you can afford it. As my physical body falls apart now due to disease, I am glad I did sports as a young person. Many fond memories.

1) DS worked very hard during HS and earned significant merit scholarships to his college choices 2) I pay for the rest (not cheap but planned) [All California schools that DS was interested in were eliminated because they cost a small fortune to AZ residents] Build a cost spreadsheet on day one of your college search.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/video-niu-attempts-fake-punt-from-own-end-zone-in-worst-play-call-of-bowl-season/> This has to be the worst play call ever! sorry link does not work MSN does something google NIU Attempts Fake Punt From Own End Zone in Worst Play Call of Bowl Season

It seems like this is very location dependent. Our local good quality CC will save you a bunch versus going to the state U directly.

(that course is on sale now) on that site at least someone thinks it is a complete course: Is this course equivalent to the college level Discrete Mathematics? TGCSoxGuy · 2 years agoThis person is one of the top10 contributors of useful reviews. Yes. Prof. Benjamin teaches in 24 30-minute lectures all of the core concepts that would appear in a college-level course on the subject. While our courses are not accredited, it matches the content of an equivalent college course and can be useful for someone who needs to take the course or needs an understanding of its concepts as a foundation for other courses the instructor "that all of our students, every high school graduate should know -- should be statistics: probability and statistics" https://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_changing_math_education>

one Carnegie unit is a standard year high school class (180 days or so) OR equivalent No need to take APs but maybe use some DEs (Does Georgia recognize one semester = one HS year if not then avoid this route) There are a fair number of accredited courses available for home schoolers (mostly online) if that is required.

thank you for the compliment It also includes (a lot) of DS' critique as well

learning to drive is very important before heading off to college IMHO my nephew's friends (in LP) that did not get their licenses in HS still don't have them at age 20-21

here http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/663614-solid-online-options-for-all-high-school-math-courses-lots-of-practice/ I asked about the rigor UnLock Math, Peterborough, Ontario: http://www.unlockmath.com/geometry

see http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/540313-homeschool-high-school-physics/page-2?do=findComment&comment=7931850

review AP Physics 2 SEMESTER 1 https://www.ucscout.org/courses/apphysics2 "Scout from University of California is a program that develops and delivers A-G approved, online classes and curriculum to students around the globe. Our course materials are designed to inspire lifelong curiosity and prepare pupils of all backgrounds and education levels for an increasingly technological world where training and job skills are mobile, asynchronous, and self-directed." Course Prerequisite Concurrent enrollment in Pre-calculus. Completion of an introductory Physics course, such as AP Physics 1, is recommended (My DS took AP Physics 1 at his B&M Charter school during his Junior year.) Provided Textbook Openstax College Physics (free PDF) I thought this textbook was good. Lots of detail and fairly easy reading. We used other hard-copy College Physics texts as reference. Especially when DS asked Dear-old-Dad for help. My DS was in the teacher led version. Initially the course teacher was a good and experienced HS Physics teacher. After just a few weeks into the course he had a family emergency and had to resign. The AP Bio teacher ran the course after that. Unfortunately that person could not answer Physics questions very well. So it basically became a self-study course from that point on. The course had good coverage of the listed topics SEMESTER 1 16 weeks long with week 15 being review and week 16 for the semester final Unit 1: Thermodynamics AKA Chapter 1 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat & Specific and Latent heat (each of these are a lesson) Heat Transfer and Thermal Expansion Ideal Gases Laws of Thermodynamics Unit 2: Fluid Statics and Dynamics Hydrostatic pressure & Buoyancy Fluid Flow Continuity & Bernoulli's Equation Unit 3: Electrostatics Electric Charge and Coulomb’s law Electric Fields Electric Potential Unit 4: DC Circuits and RC Circuits: Steady State Electrostatics with Conductors & Capacitors Current Resistance Power DC Circuits with Batteries and Resistors & Capacitors in Circuits I did not like the sequencing of some Thermodynamics topics before Ideal Gases. It seemed out of order and none of the College Physics textbooks that we used for reference do it that way. UC Scout uses Canvas to deliver the online courses. It was a little confusing at first because the Problem Sets were listed under Quiz (Probably a Canvas thing). After the video tutorial, students are given a series of multiple choice questions (Problem Set). the student does the solution work neatly on paper. 1) Watch Course Lesson Video (narrated material not by the teacher) 2) Do Problem Set - done as paper-and-pencil work then choose MC answer around 10 each week 3) Watch teacher video / Weekly Discussion (post questions, etc) 4) Do Lesson Quiz 5) Do Chapter Test (approx every two weeks) 6) Do Chapter check-in (scans of your written work done on paper) The detailed syllabus did not have reading assignments from the textbook. I thought this was the weakest part of the course. Since at the beginning, DS would do one pass through the video and then attempt the Problem Set. I eventually came up with reading assignments myself and gave them to DS. Overall it seemed like too much plug and chug versus the goals of AP Physics 2. DS took screen-shots of the video as "notes". I felt that the Problem Sets were a little light in number. The semester final exam was through ProctorU. My DS said that the semester final exam was somewhat harder than the quizzes and tests during the course. According to DS there were a fair number of errors in the course MC questions so sometimes the presented choices were not valid. This is a fairly sloppy part on the UC folks. It seems like a college student could have easliy found them. If the original teacher was there throughout the course, I would have graded this course around 3 out of 5 stars. With the substitute teacher only about 2-2.5 stars NOTE: DS said they hired a new Physics teacher for the next semester. " To receive "a-g" credit, please make sure that you are able to meet one of the following criteria: 1) Test Option: Complete the UC Scout course and earn a score of 3, 4, or 5 on the AP Physics 2 exam. 2) Wet-lab Option: Complete the UC Scout course and a series of supervised, hands-on wet labs. Make sure your school can support your learning by providing equipment and supervision for the required wet lab component. " DS did not do the wet labs and will not be taking this AP exam in May. ==================================================================== Pricing see https://www.ucscout.org/plans The teacher led version cost some money and is synchronous. The Basic version is available for free to California residents and only $19 for others.

some fairly recent threads: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/652713-geometry-help-mr-d-math-jacobs-or-other/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/653755-video-based-geometry-class/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/637858-light-geometry-to-use-alongside-2nd-pass-through-alg-1/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/641129-please-help-geometry-gurus/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/664218-math-u-see-geometry-online-live-coop-class/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/631257-thinkwell-geometry-do-i-need-holt-book-to-supplement/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/647177-lesson-plans-for-jurgensens-geometry/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/636151-mr-d-math/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/550651-favorite-online-geometry/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/414594-mep-math/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/555164-mep-geometry-confusion-trapeziums/ I did post here: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/641563-thinkwell-geometry-too-easy/ Canada typically follows an Integrated Math sequence. Was it this? https://www.ctcmath.com/

I did mention UC Scout in the pinned Physics thread recently. They also have UC Scout Geometry https://www.ucscout.org/courses/geometry The teacher led version cost some money and is synchronous. The Basic version is available for free to California residents and only $19 for others. [this is NOT a recommendation] I will be reviewing the UC Scout Physics online course my DS just completed - soon