This exactly. Whatever your child studies in high school is worth high school credits. As people have pointed out there are different ways to establish a credit. You can earn a credit by completing a standard scope of learning - such as a year of Algebra or Chemistry. You can earn a credit for studying a subject for a certain amount of time, an average credit earned this way would represent about 150 hours of work, although students often spend more time than that one more challenging subjects. The advantage to using a pre-prepared curriculum like BJU is that they set out the amount of work and their courses are all worth either 1 credit for a full year or .5 credit for some half year electives. History and Science would be worth 1 credit each. There are states such as CA and IN that give unusual numbers of credits for a year's work (10 and 2 respectively), but the vast majority of American high schools use the 1 credit=1 year's learning in one subject system.

I am so glad you found an option that was a better fit!! I think having a coop in a new area would really help the transition. Having the right coop will be even better though! :thumbup:

My kids diplomas both say HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA in big letters across the top. They do say in smaller print farther down graduated from the LastName Academy. It is what we always called our homeschool if we felt the need to call it by name. We discussed the idea of GeographicalFeature Academy instead which would have worked, but they decided to stick to LastName. We do have a last name that is a common noun, so it is still a bit ambiguous. Ds's orthodontist once commented about his last name and school name being the same and what an interesting coincidence that was. Ds told him he homeschooled and the look on the orthodontist's face was priceless. He clearly hadn't realized :lol: .

It might depend on the competitiveness of the college he wants to attend, but the reality is that stats is more useful to a humanities major than pre-calc. My humanities major took AP Stats instead of pre-calc with no regrets.

We're pretty open, but our kids are pretty uninterested. My oldest has no clue about money, but we're going to be working on budgeting this summer since he will be moving into an apartment in the fall and will have some expenses beyond the lump sum payments we make for school. He buys almost nothing so money has just never had meaning to him. My youngest started working before she was 16, likes to spend money, but also to save it. She started a ROTH the day she turned 18. She will be moving into an apartment next year too, and while we'll be working on a budget, I have no concerns about her handling that. I'm not sure that being open with your finances really translates into the kids having a clue. Some just pay more attention than others. My parents shared nothing of their finances, but I caught on young anyway.

I don't remember what the last book was. They were both in high school, probably 17 & 15 years old. We loved reading together and would have continued until they left, but schedules became too difficult. We couldn't get everyone in the same place at the same time regularly enough to enjoy a book and get through it in a timely way.

No, DIVE is your main course and the textbook you choose is the supplement. Apologia doesn't contain all of the material necessary for each level of DIVE so you either have to use more than one Apologia book or some extra internet readings. DIVE provides a schedule of readings, video lectures, daily note taking/problem sets to go with the lectures, labs (these are on the videos but they are still pictures with voice over, not actually shown as video), quizzes and tests. I know there is an online option now, but it didn't exist yet when my kids were using DIVE. Before choosing DIVE be sure to watch the sample videos online. Dr. Shoreman is dry, not funny like Steve Demme. My kiddo who loved Steve, hated DIVE and visa versa. The video samples are very representative and if your student hates them, it won't get better lol.

You might take a look at this thread. We planned to do high school without outsourcing. Ds took 2 DE classes (Japanese) and then 2 AP classes through PAH. We could have lived without them, but they were all beneficial. With dd I outsourced English for 2 years just because she put in such minimal effort when working for me. Then she did DE for almost everything her junior year and graduated a year early. Again, We could have kept going without outsourcing, but she wasn't putting forth her best effort for me at that point and was really motivated by the idea of starting college early. I think academically it is very possible to homeschool high school without outsourcing. The challenge comes in motivation and maybe social opportunities. Outsourcing can help with both, but not all kids need it. Only you and your kids can determine what will work best in your family.

What level math is he in currently? I loved MUS for earlier grades and tried to use it for high school, but it just didn't work for either of my kids. Ds needed more practice and dd could do all the problems without writing or thinking. I moved both to Lial's and that worked well for us. However, I don't think you'll find many stories of people who did use MUS through high school and regretted it. Most kids who do end up with a solid foundational understanding of math and go on to college math without issues. There is no reason to outsource MUS. There is already video instruction and online support, so there is no need to use it for an outsourced class. As far as Apologia, ds used it for Chemistry and dd used it for Anatomy. I liked Apologia Chemistry(2nd edition) reasonably well. If I were doing it again, I'd use Jay Wile's newer Chemistry program instead of Apologia's 3rd edition for my non-science guy. If you plan to do an AP science later, I don't think it matters too much what you use for the high school level of that science. Any on-level course should have them adequately prepared to take on the AP level. My preference for a bit stronger science was DIVE. Dd who we knew would go into a healthcare related field did DIVE Biology & Chemistry (using M/L and BJU for textbooks). From there she went to dual enrollment Biology before graduating a year early and taking Chemistry her first semester in college. She had no trouble transitioning to college level sciences after DIVE.

I always started in January. I bought used and it took time to find what I wanted. If i didn't find things used by June, I bought new. I planned the coming year over the summer and not having all my materials in hand would have given me panic attacks, but that is just who I am.

This was us precisely. We maxed out the yearly contribution to the Coverdale for both kids from the time they were toddlers, and both of our kids accounts still ended up around double what we actually put in. I read a lot of mixed reviews of 529 plans. Our state's was fairly highly rated, but we still didn't go there. We just stuck to the Coverdale and it worked out very well for us.

This was us too. Ds is at a small private LAC. He got good merit aid, but it would have been cheaper to go to a state U. Having spent 2 years there now, I have no doubt of the decision though. The small classes and personal attention of the teachers has made a world of difference for my 2e guy. The balance is delicate. It was important to me that my kids graduate college without debt and ds's choice of schools made that more challenging, but he will make it. Dd is at an OOS University that offered in-state tuition for her. It will be less than ds paid, but it was still more than her second choice school. While neither of mine chose THE least expensive school, we did rule out some schools because of sticker price. There are still too many kids/families out there ignoring finances and sending kids off to rack up enormous debt, but I think being a bit more financially responsible is becoming more common.

I think finding sex-segregated dorms is a rarity. They are almost all coed. As stated above, some are segregated by hall, some by suite and some by room. Mixed gender suites are suites (usually defined as a group of rooms sharing a bathroom(s)) in which the rooms may not all be the same gender. My ds considered one for next year, but was able to get a 1 br apartment instead. In ds's case, the mixed gender suite would have been in a dorm where there are 4, 1-person rooms and 2 bathrooms per suite. I'm guessing they would put two girls and 2 guys in the suite, but it could be any mixture. All the dorms on his campus are coed, and most are segregated by suite. Dd's campus has a variety of suite floor plans, double-double, triple-single, double-single-single. They do not have any coed suites. Most of their dorms are sex segregated by hall. They just added a hall that is segregated by suite.

I'd have said every 6-weeks to 2 months, but it may be that it is 6-weeks between the group buys and they are available for 2-4 weeks. There is never a rush on these. They come back frequently.

I just wanted to say thanks for starting this thread. Ds is finishing his second year in college and is still no more connected than your dd. His first year he joined a couple of clubs and really tried, but without any success. This year, both of the clubs he was part of last year disbanded and he just hasn't found anything new to "join". He has gotten to know some people more as he has had more classes with the same people as his classes are leaning more toward his majors and it is a small school. I expect this to continue to help him, but he still just has acquaintances, not friends. He too has less common interests and has trouble finding people who share them, but there were some helpful ideas here that I will be sharing with him.

My kids stopped on their own. Ds slowed down at Goblet of Fire and then didn't pick of Order of the Phoenix for a long time. I don't know what I would have done if he had wanted to read straight through. I think they enjoyed them more and got more out of them by waiting, but I don't know if I'd have stopped them. Dd was super sensitive and Goblet on would have led to nightmares before age 10. She stuck to one a book a year, but wasn't a huge fan until she was a teen. My sister's kids were the perfect age, her dd was 10 when the fist book came out and she read them as they came out. I wish all kids were forced to go through them slowly like that and grow up with Harry rather than rush through and read them at such young ages.

I think TT gets such mixed reviews because, like every other program in existence, it has strengths and weaknesses. TT does a great job of teaching math with little to no parent involvement. For many families this alone makes it even better than sliced bread! When TT was first released, the high school levels were significantly weaker than the standard scope and sequence for the equivalent courses taught in public schools. That got it some very negative reviews. They have taken steps to remedy this in the second version. TT is now an on-level math course that still does a great job of teaching math with little to no parental involvement. It is not an honors level math, it is not an advanced math, it is on-level. Those seeking math programs for their gifted kids typically consider it too weak. However, that doesn't diminish its strengths. I tried it when we first started homeschooling. My kids who were coming out of public school and were average math students placed 2 years ahead in TT. I wasn't interested in putting my 5th grader in 7th grade math or my 6th grader in prealgebra and instead put them into stronger math where they placed at their actual grade levels. My kids also didn't like the computer model and didn't want to do work on paper then enter it into the computer. TT isn't for everyone, but again, that doesn't change that it is great for some. Those who use it seem rarely to regret it. Their kids go onto math at higher levels without difficulty, thus debunking the "it isn't enough myth" daily. Use what works for you and your family and allow yourself to tune out the noise of those who say it isn't enough.

We used it. It is a semester, not a year. There is very little math, although there is budgeting, figuring interest, etc. The strength of the program isn't really the videos (which are very similar to Dave's adult financial peace course), but is all the activities on the CD. There are enough for one a day for a semester and many of them are worthwhile (although we didn't use them all). My kids got quite a bit out of it, but we do mostly follow Dave's principals around here and avoid debt. One credit card is enough to keep our FICO score in great shape, although we hope to never need it again. My kids learned about budgeting, saving, investing, insurance, and yes, even the power of cash. There is wasted time in this course on paying off debt which obviously doesn't apply to most high school students, but if you like Dave, you'll like the course overall.

Many liberal arts colleges have Nursing programs. Rate the school on both, the quality of its nursing program (be sure to check NCLEX pass rates) and the quality of the school overall if you think she might change her mind. Truman State University in Missouri comes to mind as a good choice for those requirements, but I have no idea where you are. Dd is a nursing major, but specifically marked Truman off because she didn't want so much focus on a liberal arts education. :lol:

I would do the visit. Visits have totally changed both of my kids perspectives. Every college has its own vibe. Sitting in on a class, meeting professors, and just hanging out on campus for the day really does give a different impression than just reading about a place. At this time of year colleges are also putting up their fall course lists. You can usually search and find these and access them without being an enrolled student. Look at teachers and RMP ratings, class sizes, availability of desired classes, etc. We found this very informative and it also was impactful for one of my kids.

We sent only what was asked for as well. We too had admins tell us that they didn't want extras. Everything gets uploaded into their software and if they ask for two recommendations, there are probably only two slots to upload those into. They have no place to put the extra stuff and don't want to have to look at it, figure out they don't need it and be forced to discard it. It is a waste of time for the admins and can't leave a positive impression. Updates are different and are expected.

Excellence in Literature is very inexpensive and each unit (book) stands alone, so you can decide how many to cover and at what pace. Their Introduction to Lit level would be perfect for your situation. Just set his pace rather than using their schedule.

I agree with Kellie, the reason probably lies in a struggle with decimals. They will place into the level where they can't do the problems. Most likely they have some knowledge or understanding gaps in Zeta. Decimals are the main thing covered there, but not the only thing. Geometry is so different from previous math levels. Success or failure there is usually more about logic and reasoning skills than previous math knowledge.

Very good point. OP - have you googled her school name and final exam schedule?

Ds's school has required they move out within 24 hours of their last final too. Dd's last final has been in an evening class both semesters and so she has spent the night and left the next morning. I really wouldn't expect Saturday to be crazy busy for move outs. Many kids will have finished finals before that and will be long gone. From our experience, moving out isn't like moving in. It isn't done all in one day, so there is never that level of insanity.