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  1. On 6/25/2019 at 7:19 PM, EKS said:

    It might help to know what "rigorous" schools require.

    1-2 essays per semester.  That is all.  Really.

    That really isn't typical. As someone who teaches Writing I at a state U, I can tell you that only a few of my students come in with this kind of writing history and they are typically from either urban or rural schools. Most of my students can turn out a 3-5 page paper without blinking an eye because they're used to doing LOTS of them. Some have done a couple of 8-10 page papers per year the last couple of years of high school (in addition to LOTS of essays).

    To get an idea of what you're preparing for, I assign 5 papers in Eng110. They range from a project proposal w/ annotated bibliography and a 3 page essay at the easy end to an 8-10 page researched argument paper. My students also turn in journals (writings on assigned topics - not personal journals) weekly that range from 200-400 words. These vary in style but start simple with summaries and work into more complex analysis. 

  2. I stuck with test grades in courses where I gave tests. In English and some other classes that were based more on writing, my kids revised work that was below A level until they had an A. My advise is be honest. I think colleges have respect for homeschoolers that don't have a 4.0 - too many do. Grade inflation is at least as rampant in the homeschooling community as it is anywhere else. 

    No matter how many people answer this question and how different the answers are, it is still your decision. You can give the grade that you believe reflects your students mastery of the subject based on whatever criteria you choose.

  3. On 6/28/2019 at 9:48 AM, Pegasus said:

    I wanted to provide a final update.  DD got an A- for the course and provided a scathing end-of-course evaluation on the guy.  

    She should now email the head of the department. As my head of department always says, no grade is final. She doesn't have to speak to anyone, but it lets the department head know, and, if it is like my university, the teacher will hear from the department head. She can also file a protest against the grade - if getting points for that assignment would have given her an A. Both are paper work, not in-person things and now she doesn't have to fear retribution.

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  4. To find if D&D is prevalent, you'll have to go beyond looking for gaming clubs. Many seem to focus most on video games; some focus on board games. None of the colleges my kids looked at had gaming clubs that focused on RPGs. That said, ds did manage to game while at college, even though he ended up at a liberal arts college with no gaming club at all. Ds began GM'ing well before college and continued on through. When he graduated, one of his former professors invited him to join a monthly game he hosts too. Gaming has become very mainstream and I have little doubt she'll be able to find it anywhere she goes.

  5. 9 hours ago, easypeasy said:

    I find it tedious to contact the prof(s) about every single incorrectly missing point and have decided to only do so now if I think I NEED those points toward the end of the semester. It takes real time & effort to set up an email with my "proof" of having the correct answer, etc.

    I would not look kindly on a student that tried to get me to change a grade at the end of the semester after sitting on it for weeks. I'm not sure what I would do with that. I don't give quizzes and writing often doesn't have clear right/wrong answers, so I never face this, but the end of the semester is a busy time and I know how I would feel about it. 

  6. 7 hours ago, ZiMom said:

    I have pretty 'classic' migraines with the feeling of a knife going through my left eye, but I also will have a general fogginess that I know to be a low level migraine too.  

    Neurologists are definitely diagnosing more and more things as migraines these days.  Mine have rollercoaster from about 6-20 a month since I was 16 and I have tried every med out there.  Among other things I have been on Botox for migraines for about 8 years now which has kept them down to around 6-8 a month.  I posted a month or so ago that I began Aimovig, a new monthly injectable April 1.  Since that time I have had about one a month and am currently at 41 days migraine free.   Hope that helps any other chronic migraine sufferers.   

     

    This describes me/my migraines very well. My dh often recognizes I'm getting a migraine before I do because of the fog. I lose the power to problem solve or make decisions. However, mine always end up with sever pain on one side (usually right, but occasionally left). I too did everything imaginable for migraine treatments across the last 20 years, including botox. Aimovig has been life changing! I started it last fall and as long as I do the injection every 28 days, I only have 1-2 migraines per month. If I'm late (insurance messed me up one month) I start over and I lose coverage for about a week until it fully kicks in.

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  7. On 6/12/2019 at 5:22 AM, 8FillTheHeart said:

    Truman State is one my Dd seriously considered. 

    I graduated from Truman and although neither of my kids found it a good fit, several of my friends kids are there now. It is cheap, even out of state (as are all of Missouri's state U's) and they all also have automatic aid. Truman is at the northern edge of the state, so most people would qualify it as colder climate.

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  8. You're right, online is harder for most s

    2 hours ago, Miguelsmom said:

    The school has that posted where they list the student jobs.

    When he transfers he'll only need 48 (3-400 level) credits to graduate. It's 1 extra class a semester but 2 extra classes a year that's where I got the 2 classes and $1,700. We're trying 5 classes + a lab this semester to see if he can handle it with support. I'm hoping he will be able to handle the load so we know he'll handle it when he's in an university. At home he takes a mix of online and in-person classes. I know online can be harder (at least for him) then in person. He plans to do all classes in person when at the university.

    You're right, online classes are harder for most people. Ds couldn't handle more than 12 hours/semester most of the time in college either. If he had been required to take 15 for his scholarship, he couldn't have maintained the GPA he needed. He did have to make "adequate progress toward graduation", but his school defined that as 24 credits/year. He did take summer school classes and with some DE, CLEP, and AP credit, graduated in 4 years. Don't be afraid to stand up to a system that pushes him too fast. It works for many, but not for everyone.

    Knowing he needs the time to do homework, I'd definitely have him live on campus. Otherwise, he'll lose 1.5-2 hours per day to the commute. It doesn't sound like he has time for that and it will make life much more stressful. 

    I do commute 35-45 minutes each way to school. I'm less involved on campus because of it, but I'm old and don't need campus involvement. The dorm would be a much better option, particularly if it is his preference so he'll be trying hard to make it work.

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  9. I vote dorms too. I had a friend in college with about a 30 minute commute and he always talked about being left out of everything. 

    Ds went to school 45 minutes away. He lived on campus and graduated in May. It was pricey, but well worth it for him.

    If he prefers the dorms, I'd support that.

     

     

  10. I used DIVE ICP with Physical Sciences: Concepts in Action for both kids. DD liked it; ds didn't. DD went on to use DIVE Biology w/ Miller Levine Biology and DIVE Chemistry with BJU Chem. Look at the sample videos of DIVE. They are very representative. If your children think they are deathly boring, they will think the same of the full program (ds did). If they like the samples, they will probably like the whole thing.

    The program offers a solid on-level science curriculum. It is not AP. It is not AP if you add the extra DVD. As long as you're looking for solid high school science, DIVE could be a good fit. It is quite Christian. We usually paired with secular texts, but if you aren't ok with a heavy handed Christian program, you should beware.

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  11. I always miss structure when I don't have it as well, however, this summer I couldn't be happier for some down time. This past semester (taking 4 graduate classes and teaching 2 undergrad classes) was way more than I really want to do. I was exhausted and burned out. This summer I'm tutoring (tutor.com), working on a degree paper, and hanging out with my kids and husband whenever they are available. I kayak and bike at least once a week each, sometimes more. I've caught up with various appointments: dentist, vet, etc. I'm reading just because I want to and I'm in a book club with some other grad students. It is such a relief.

    I have always been ready to go back to school every fall and I will be again. The structure is so good for me. I get more done, I enjoy what I'm doing. I totally get needing and missing it, but this summer, I'm healing from stress and overload and that's pretty great too.

  12. My ASD kiddo went to school just 45 minutes from home. I'm really glad he was close. There were times he needed to have a weekend here to decompress or destress. I was able to pull him out of spirals where he wasn't eating or sleeping well. No one at school ever knew he was ASD.

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  13. I have a dd who is a junior in a BSN program. Her fiancé graduated from the same program in December. He is planning to go on for his NP as soon as dd finishes her BSN. I also have a friend who just finished her NP and is now working as an NP, although she hasn't found a position she really likes yet.

    Unlike others who have posted, dd did not consider any direct placement programs. First, the programs in this region are almost all admissions after the first 2 or 3 semesters and her goal was to stay within a 4 hour drive, and second dd didn't have great ACT scores, so her chances of being admitted were better when they were based on her college coursework and grades anyway. The program has a very high NCLEX pass rate and a 100% job placement rate and she has been happy there. Her school and many others offer 2 cohorts per year, so the wait to reapply is only one semester if they don't get in and the truth is, those who don't do well enough to get admitted aren't likely to be able to make it through the program anyway. I will admit, waiting to get the admission notification was a nail-biter!

    My best advice is not to overpay for the degree. Choose a reasonably priced school that has great NCLEX pass rates, good labs, and good clinical opportunities. For example, Dd is in her 3rd semester and now spends 2, 12 hour days per week at the hospital. She gets to do all of the procedures she is approved for (like IVs, catheters, and I have no idea what else). This semester one of her rotations is LD/NICU and she has been present for the births of several babies and in the OR for one c-section. She spent one very long day feeding babies in the NICU, one after another. Her pediatric rotation last semester was her favorite so far. There should be a lot of hands on experience (not just watching) and  rotations in a variety of specialties.

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  14. April is rough here too. I finished a first draft of a 19 page paper today. I just turned in another 12 page paper that is due tomorrow. I have another 10-12 page draft due next week (unstated) and another 15 page paper after that. I'm also taking "Teaching Writing Online" and I have to design a course module which will take at least as long as any of the papers. Additionally, I have one more presentation to give (15 min) and a Final that requires the memorization of something like 150 terms. Oh, and my standard 800 word blog post and 3 discussion board posts for my online class - 3 more sets of those.

    Then there are the classes I teach. My students will turn in their longest paper (8-10 pages) Friday, so I'll have 42 of those to grade. Then they have one more paper after that, but it's only 2-4 pages. They turn in portfolios on the day of the final with revisions of 4 papers (including the long one) in them and I have to grade those. I'll also spend a day grading portfolios for all the basic writing courses - those are graded P/F by a group of 18 grad students (me included) and I understand it takes less than a full day.

    Deep breath. Back to work.

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  15. On 1/22/2019 at 4:34 PM, mlktwins said:

    LOL -- I wasn't even reading the whole thing -- LOL!!!  I think I am also a bit stressed because we are still making a decision on which public schools to apply for and whether we will continue homeschooling.  I'm just not sure I can give them what the local school can give (IB - Honors/AP, Project Lead the Way). 

     

    1 hour ago, peacelovehomeschooling said:

     I am really worried I won't give her everything she needs.  I desperately want the best for her (as we all do for our kids) and want her education to wonderful.  

     

    Can I just say that no two educations are the same. Stop comparing. What you do homeschooling high school will be better in some ways than what they could get anywhere else, and in other ways it won't measure up. It will be different and different is ok. Take it one step at a time, do your best, and be prepared to live with that.  It will be ok. From the mom of two college kids who both homeschooled high school, each quite differently even than their sibling, it will be ok and if you care enough to be this worried, you will do just fine.

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  16. Neither of my kids took notes in high school classes until they started dual enrollment. We did a little note taking on textbooks, but not much. I don't think it has hurt either one of them at all. It sounds like she is already getting some note taking experiences. I would continue to look for a few of those here and there, but I wouldn't make it your focus. If she can do it for some things, she'll be able to do it when she needs to.

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  17. On 1/2/2019 at 10:43 AM, eagleynne said:

    Another thing, not all clinicals are created equal. Some schools never send their students to a full-day clinical. Some don't let the students actually do much but observe and pass water. Others provide a much better experience, especially teaching hospitals. Our local nursing school doesn't do a full-day clinical until the last semester of senior year. The rest of the time students only go in for half a shift, and then they aren't actually allowed to do much, because they have to have their clinical instructor present for any procedures they perform. So a class of 20 will come with 1 clinical instructor for 6 hours twice a week, you can guess how that goes. I've worked with some new grads who didn't know how to do basic things, like start an IV, put in a catheter, etc. All they had been allowed to do was observe because they could never get the clinical instructor's attention when the chance to try a procedure occurred.

    This is shocking to me! In our search we didn't see any clinicals like this. Dd's program is 5 semesters. The first semester is lab only. The second semester had one, 12 hr clinical day/week. She already did things like IVs and catheters in that semesters. Third semester she has two, 12 hr clinical days/week. I think it stays at 2 days/week the last two semesters as well, but I'm not sure. Definitely make sure the program has clinicals that have your future nurse prepared! 

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  18. I'm a TA working on my master's. I teach two classes per semester in exchange for a full tuition waiver plus a stipend. For those who want to teach at the college level, it is a great opportunity to get a free education plus graduate with experience. Adding teaching to a full time load of classes is a lot of work and the pay is relatively low, so there are down sides as well. i love it and have no regrets!

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