Salty has been around for at least a couple of years. I thought it was on the way out. My dd picked it up while she still lived her and still says it occasionally, but it was never a favorite. It is said more in a teasing way when it is used. "Feeling a bit salty?" when someone complains.

In education, it is helpful to get a degree from a college in the area where you want to work. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, colleges talk to the large districts that are hiring in their area and they tailor their programs to fit what those schools want. Trends in education are constantly changing. Having the "right" knowledge will make all the difference in an interview. The other reason is that teachers are often grabbed-up when they are student teaching. If the district is impressed and they have an opening, they will be hired. If he student teaches far from where he wants to live, obviously he loses this opportunity. If he wants to stay in your area, his best shot at employment after college is probably your local state U. (Both of my parent were PhD's in education who worked in the public K12 environment and were involved in hiring.)

Another option would be Write at Home. Their High School Composition 1 along with the lit at coop would be a solid year. They way they do papers would give your ds the opportunity to really improve his writing. They do 3 versions of each paper: Rough draft - then get feed back 2nd draft - more feedback Final - more feedback! This process really helped dd to see what she needed to improve and exactly how to do it. They assign one draft of one paper each week, so the pace gives them plenty of time to really work on things. I dismissed it two years in a row, thinking it wasn't enough, but other classes moved too fast and didn't really give the level of feedback dd needed. WAH was a really great move for us.

:lol: As long as the writing is original, I don't see how this would be caught most of the time. I tutor writing at tutor.com and I work with international students a lot. They come in with paper's in incomprehensible English and we spend hours working through each page with me telling them what's wrong and why and helping them make changes. They leave with a paper they were not capable of writing, but hopefully a little better understanding of English too. The difference between a paper they can spend hours writing and hours working on with tutors vs a paper they write in class would be dramatic. I work with many other native English speakers who are equally poor writers and we do the same thing. Turning in papers that are dramatically better if they are written outside of class might just mean the student spent a lot of time in the writing center, with tutors, etc. While a professor could become suspicious, as long as it is original work, I think it would nearly impossible to prove.

Similarly to what others have said, ds's disability services office provides letters for students to give to each of their professors which explain the accommodations they receive. After that it is up to the student to work directly with the teachers. Disability services might help if a teacher wasn't following protocol, but not with initial contacts. Of course, we've never dealt with a surgery situation, but I would assume it would be the same. I would expect her to be able to get an incomplete and receive extra time if she needs it to finish classes. That would be available even to a student without a disability who had to have surgery during a semester. Sorry your dd is having a hard time right now Prim!

Being an electronically organized person, I tried hard to get ds to use homework apps, calendars, timers and more and they all failed. Instead he uses a big desk calendar (wall would work too) and a paper planner. He talked to disability services at his college and those were their recommendation and he has done so much better after implementing them! In fact both of my kids carry paper planners. I can't believe it! If it weren't for "calendar" on my phone and computer I'd be lost. I never thought my kids would revert to paper!

I've considered hanging out a shingle, but I prefer to provide assistance when I feel I have something to offer and when I want to. I do those things here. If I hung out a shingle, I'd have to work with people whose experiences don't match ours and at times that were inconvenient to me. We all have shingles hanging here. Ask for help anytime. You'll get the advantage of not one experienced answer, but many!

One of my kids college posted fall courses on March 1st, the other isn't up yet. You may have to wait a little longer. I dropped both kids off for their DE advising appointments (neither was old enough to drive yet) but didn't go in. However, when DD actually enrolled (a separate appointment), she had to have a signature or something from me and the person who helped her invited me in. I was there when she actually signed up for the classes, but she had already met with her advisor alone before that and had a planned schedule in hand. The appointment I was there for was just meeting with an administrative person who walked her through the online enrollment system. They required that the first semester, then after that she could enroll online without supervision. There is a great deal of variety in the way colleges handle enrollment and everyone has a different idea of what is ok and what is helicopter parenting. Go if your ds wants you to and if you are invited in feel free. If not, you can wait. It won't be a big deal either way. DE students are often too young to drive. The fact that parents aren't far away is kind of obvious.

Me too! I was feeling really bad for awhile. I'm so excited that it will be light long enough to go for a walk after dinner. I love having the outdoors available in the evening. Also, because I don't have to be up early, I love having it stay dark longer. My dogs are getting up at 6:00 right now because that is when it gets light. I don't want to get up at 6:00 and will be thrilled for the reprieve.

To the OP, you said the code wasn't used. Did she open it? Unopened codes can be resold or returned.

Same here. :lol:

I put it on one or both of my kids transcripts. The local public schools teach it as a .5 credit class and it is on their transcripts, so it is expected in this area. I'm sure colleges see many transcripts with it, and I can't imagine that they care if it is there or not. It doesn't check a box they are looking for, but there are so many districts still offering it that they see it all the time. No big deal either way.

This was the reason we did AP Language. Ds was a wonderful writer, but I couldn't take him farther. He needed a really gifted teacher, and Maya Inspektor filled that role beautifully! There was no box that needed checking. We weren't trying to accumulate AP's and he is a writing major, so it wasn't like the would take fewer writing classes in college because of it. AP Language sharpened his skills, helped him speed up his writing, and taught him to work to someone else's expectations. I don't think anything else we did in high school helped him more in college. AP English does include literature studies. The course we used did mostly non-fiction readings, but also did 4 novels (2 fiction, 2 non-fiction). The year was his lightest on literature, but his heaviest on writing. I can't compare the course to Rhetoric, because we didn't take that route. I would expect that either, if taught by an excellent teacher, would leave the student very prepared for college writing. ETA We did choose between the AP and English at the small liberal arts college he now attends and have no regrets. Maya had a whole year with him. I don't think a 1 semester class in college would have come close.

This will depend entirely on the school. Both of my kids handled their first enrollment when they were DE students without a parent. But we were with both of them when they met with their advisor for the first time at their final University. Ds's university sent freshman schedules, then when he went to summer orientation he met with advising to make changes. Dh was with him and there was never an opportunity to separate. Dh waited in line with him (as did the other parents) and then sat down with the advisor with him. His school highly encourages family involvement. Dd was supposed to meet with advising to make a schedule at her summer orientation and they specified no parents allow. However, she had hip surgery less than a week before and was in a wheelchair which I was pushing. They let her go to scheduling early so we could leave after what they considered to be the most important parts of the day. I pushed dd to advising, then I sat in a chair by the door of the office while dd and the advisor sat at the computer on the advisor's desk. Dd had a plan and had written down what she wanted. The advisor pushed her to change her plan and dd looked at me for support. I did support her and she went ahead with her own plan (the advisor tried to put her in a class at a different time with teacher with horrible RMP ratings). It wasn't a big deal, but I'm guessing the advisor was sorry I was there. It may be that after the Financial Aid appointment, you are both taken into advising and it is no big deal. It may be that it is clear you are supposed to wait outside. Be prepared either way.

Have you done TT before and if so does she like it/do well with it? If so, I'd continue with it. If she hasn't tried it, do you know someone who has it so she could preview it? DO has sample lessons on his website. I would get her opinion. The buy-in can be invaluable.

This is what I did too. If they passed a CLEP at the end, it got marked as honors and got weighted. As I just finished typing on the high school board, I weighted grades after being told to do so by the admissions office at ds's current University. They told me many homeschoolers miss out on their top scholarships because they don't weight grades. For dd I followed the same process for marking honors courses, but did not weight the grades because the colleges she was applying to did not use weighted grades in their scholarship calculations.

This is what I found too. From these boards, I had never planned to weight grades, but the school ds is now attending told me to be sure to do it, that many homeschoolers miss out on scholarships because they don't weight grades. I used a 5.0 for DE, AP, and honors because the only courses I listed as honors were those he passed a CLEP in, so I figured those were college credit level too. Dd only applied to state schools with guaranteed admissions for her stats that didn't use weighted grades for scholarships. They were all happy to supply that information and I didn't bother to include a weighted GPA on her transcript.

1. I provided descriptions for all classes. I debated bothering with dual enrolled classes, but went ahead for consistency. 2. No. Every class, whether in ps, private, online or homeschooled varies in its method of evaluation. I felt no need to explain or defend any of those choices. 3. I don't think admissions particularly appreciates over-inclusion, having to go through a ton of information they aren't interested in. However, if I had any doubt about whether I should include something, I probably did. 4. This would depend entirely on the schools the student is applying to. If they are high acceptance rate schools, or guaranteed admissions with certain stats, etc. I wouldn't bother. If they are highly competitive, I'd probably include the course descriptions.

This is exactly what I did. I didn't think they were in any way required. I listed the grades on the transcript, then listed PAH in the course description as provider.

This was very true here. When ds was little if he was allowed to pull into his own world, it was very hard to get him back. Being able to pull him back, then for him to be able to shift on his own, was a very gradual process. It didn't suddenly appear in his teens, but slowly developed year by year. When he was 6, he was in public school and he needed some significant downtime each day to recover, but it was hard to pull him out afterwards. It was a hard balancing act. Now as an adult, taking light loads in college, having down time to pursue his interests and plenty of time alone are all good things. Being overwhelmed and going into overload is the worst and the thing we fight the most. I still watch though. If he pulls back too far and stops communicating, I know he is spiraling out of control. I've been known to tell him he must come home for a weekend, which can give me time to help him rebalance. I encourage him to sleep, eat, talk, and get back to a healthy mental and physical place in the midst of chaos. It definitely was different when he was little though.

I'm so sorry that he has been going through this and so sorry you had to deal with it while you are sick and yet so proud of you for standing up from him. Just my quick anecdotal story on how homeschooling handicaps ASD children academically and socially: my ASD ds is a sophomore in college. We started homeschooling at the start of 6th grade. When I took him into the school for testing in high school (for accommodations with the ACT/college boards) the person who did he testing and the coordinator I worked with were amazed by him. They told me he would never have reached the academic & social levels he had if he'd stayed in their school district all the way through. They even offered me a job teaching in the high school special ed department. I told them I wasn't certified and they offered to sponsor my certification. Apparently homeschooling doesn't have to spell disaster for an ASD kiddo.

It is absolutely possible to do year long classes in a semester, but you can't do 6 or 8 of them. Many high schools do full year courses in a semester (block system). They usually do 4 classes each semester allowing 8 classes per year. Even in only 3 years, that would give you ds the time to get 24 credits. If he wants to add an extra class in the summer that's possible too. At only 14, he has plenty of time to finish high school on time if he is well motivated. I would agree with OneStep that there may be reasons behind his lack of effort up to this point that go beyond motivation. He may have been dealing with some extra challenges that were masked by his lack of interest. If this is the case, his changed motivation will help, but the underlying problems may still trip him up.

We really struggled to find a place to take APs, but we did finally get a private school to do it. We were the first homeschool family they had ever allowed to test. Someone has to be first. Just keep calling. There is an AP Exam Commiseration thread on the high school board each year. Here is one from 2016. Here is one from 2015.

What I think it awesome about this list is that the only thing on it that made the list for either of my kids is fit. The fact is that everyone is different, and when you start compiling a list of what is important in choosing a college, well, it can't be done. There is always something that mattered to someone that will be left off the list. Just because my list is the polar opposite of this list, doesn't mean both lists aren't valid. Homeschooling gave us the ability to do what was right for our kids. In truth, there are so many and such varied options for college, that we retain that ability. Looking at everyone else's list is a great place to get ideas, but make sure you look at your kids and your family and make your list based on the reality of what you find, not what someone else tells you is important.

You might look at last year's decision thread. Many people posted not only where there kids were going, but why. It might give you some insight into what became important in the search. For my kids, location, quality of the program they were interested in and size were probably the top 3 factors, but lots of others came into play all the way down to dorms and food. Prestige and connections aren't on our list, but the importance of those things varries a great deal by major. Edited to add the link.