My kids have what yours already has. They have a debit card on their account and a credit card in their name on my credit card account. I see no need for more than that, but we aren't big on credit.

My oldest fell in love with a school early in the process. If it had been up to him, he would have completely stopped looking at that point, but I was very hesitant because of the price tag. In the end he was able to get enough scholarship money to make it work. He's a sophomore there now. He still thinks I wasted his time by making him look around and apply to a financial safety. :)

Don't go to MUS. Their pre-calc is really just a very light trig program with a couple of weeks of extra topics thrown in at the end. We used it for a 1 semester trig class (and left out extra topics), but I don't think it would match where you are at all. Teaching Textbooks Pre-Calc would work, but you've probably covered some of it in Algebra 2. If you liked BJU before, I'd go with that. You can look at the pinned math thread at the top of this page for more options. There are many. Which one is right for you is hard to say, but leave Saxon behind with no regrets. It works for some, but isn't the best choice for most.

My oldest is dysgraphic. My youngest considers taking notes on labs to be joy sucking. I totally get where you are coming from. We did do lots of labs. We did about 1/week, but we do science in a semester block so that is 16 not 32 labs and we had 2 hours for each. There are plenty of simple labs that fit in an hour though. Some of the labs in biology are just demonstrating concepts and looking at things in a microscope. These are quick and easy. They don't require much in the way of note taking and full lab reports aren't needed. Some labs will have a lot of data to analyze and these are the ideal for an actual lab write up. It doesn't matter if they record the data in a spiral notebook or if they do it on worksheets. Worksheets can have prebuilt tables and help walk you though the lab which will be easier. A spiral is a good habit, but my kids haven't had to use one yet in a college science class. It isn't the end of the world if he doesn't use one in high school. Keep it fun. Keep the labs. Don't stress over it.

Except the teacher access pack was free and it is more like a Kindle book you've purchased disappearing from your Kindle - which happens.

So I just had this discussion with a friend Saturday. He grew up AG and went to a Baptist college. He was not happy there and was frustrated by the religion professors desire for him to believe as they did - or at least that was his perception. I have another friend who grew up Baptist and went to an AG college. She talked about a missions class where the professor didn't cover the material for an exam, but told them not to worry they all knew it. It turned out to be all about AG missionaries. My friend had never heard of any of them, but would have been fine on a similar exam in her own denomination. Both transferred after two years. It wasn't that they felt unwelcome, but both were frustrated by assumptions made by faculty. One transferred to a college of their own denomination, the other to a secular university. All that to say that it does depend on the school. As far as do people make assumptions about you based on where you went to school, as someone who reads a lot of resumes, the answer is, I do. If I see BYU I assume Mormon. If you say you went to Liberty, I assume conservative Christian. Now there are colleges who have a much looser affiliation that don't trigger those assumptions for me, but some really do. I don't know that, that is in any way damaging. I don't screen resumes for religious preference, but I do notice and jump to conclusions.

I used the term honors for classes that were taught from college textbooks or that culminated in a CLEP test. I only did it because ds's University used weighted grades for scholarships and specifically told me to weight grades. I weighted grades for all classes that were college level whether taught at home, online, or DE.

Mine was in a similar position as the OP, however, his summer class doesn't end until next week. He'll only have 2 weeks with nothing before going back to school. I don't require anything specific, but he is a family member so he pitches in like any other family member. All summer he has mowed our grass (we mow about an acre with a push mower) and done the chores he did before he went to college. He's always been a willing helper and that hasn't changed. :)

None of the universities that my kids looked at allowed non-athletes to use the athlete weight rooms. However, they all had fitness centers available for student use. Pools, tracks, and gyms all had some open hours when students could use them, but of course those work around athlete training times. Fitness centers are a very popular selling point. Most colleges have them or have them in the plans.

I used Write at Home last year for the first time. I have always avoided it because it seemed too light and the price too high for what was taught. I wish I'd used it sooner. It was a perfect fit for dd who needed to spend more time on each assignment, revising and perfecting each, rather than just rushing through and producing mediocre work which was what she typically did in writing. WAH does two revisions of each assignment with lots of feedback on each draft. For us it was a good value.

Letters. I didn't use +/- but that's your call. In previous threads people seem pretty equally divided on the +/- thing.

What do you consider affordable? Is there a top to your price range? What are you hoping to achieve/cover? What level is he currently (you told us grade, but there is a huge range in 9th graders)

Almost never. I just don't hang around people that would express those sentiments. I also unfollow anyone who posts anything racist on FB. I've never heard it when I was just out and about.

I've got two kids in college. I wouldn't say I'm so much saving for it as that is where most of my money is going. We are always saving for retirement. There isn't anything else we're really specifically saving for.

I voted no and no, but that is because the way I feel about calling the police has not changed, not because I'm quick to call. I've never called the police. I hope I never need to. However, if there was a situation that I thought might be endangering me or someone else I would. I have a friend who called the police when a man was walking down the middle of the road drunk recently. She got the man to come over to the side of the road and talk to her in order to keep him out of traffic until the police got there. He was in danger; he needed help. I live out in the country. If there is someone that doesn't belong near my house, I know. I watch. My dogs watch. Sometimes I will go out and ask if they need help (usually accompanied by a large and vicious looking dog). I think I'd have to see a crime, not something suspicious to call the police, but definitions could vary.

I had one who trained at 30 months and one who trained at 18 months. I could count the total number of accidents they had on one hand. When they are ready, they are ready. There is no reason to hold back because you fear accidents. I say if he wants to use the potty, let him!

You need to borrow that microscope rather than buy it! If he loves it and it makes science more fun - then it might be worth buying, but there is no guarantee that will be the case. Everything you look at through a microscope in biology, you can find a picture of exactly what you should see and even labeled on the internet. It takes a few minutes with a microscope to figure out microscope use. If he doesn't learn now and needs to know later, it won't be a big deal. If you lived near me, I'd let you borrow mine. We did use it. Quite a lot actually. But I still don't think it was essential and my kids were never in love with using it.

Another option is Write at Home. They give good writing instruction and do two revisions of each thing they write with tons of feedback for each, giving the students a lot of opportunity to learn and improve. It is not fast paced and you would need a separate literature class. I skipped this option for years thinking it was too light and in the end tried it for dd's last year (after she completed college comp). Her writing really benefitted from her writing coach's editing and walking her through the revisions. This is their high school comp 1 class. I wish I had focused less on rigor and let dd work at a slower pace and really nail down the fundamentals sooner. I would expect that after the first year of Composition with WAH you could switch to any other on-level high school class if you wanted to get all of English into one course, but I think their freshman course would work just fine for him to remediate his weaknesses. I think you are right in believing he just needs instruction. As others have pointed out, there is a lot that is good in his writing.

I don't think she will need to prepare them for any of those things. Are they compliant children? Will they follow the teachers instructions? If so, the structure will be fine. The school will not expect them to be self-teaching. They will have a teacher. If they are academically on target, they will transition easily. Does she know what curriculum provider they school uses? Most Christian schools are pretty publisher-centric. She could find out and at least take a look at the expectations for the next year and make sure there is nothing that will throw them. Elementary school tests are really not a skill that needs to be taught. They'll be fine. Tell her to relax.

Okay, take a deep breath. To start with it looks like her level is still firmly in Jr. High. The only course she will be able to count for high school is probably Algebra, and if she continues and takes 4 more years of math, she won't need to count Algebra 1 anyway. However, if she ends up spreading some math courses over more than a year and needs to, the credit will be there for her. English done prior to high school isn't usually counted. She really needs to do 4 credits worth of English during the 4 years of high school. Do what you need to, to have her very ready for English next year in 9th grade. Don't worry about trying to make it a credit. For science, 8th grade is really an open field. Since science isn't her strength and nothing you are considering there is high school credit worth, pick something she will enjoy. If you want to try Apologia to see if that will be a good fit for high school, go for it. I have always heard their General and Physical Science books are the most boring in the series and they are totally unnecessary. If possible let her preview it. Pick a science subject that she is interested in (at least mildly so) and then come back and let us help you find a curriculum that will help her move toward being prepared for high school science. You don't mention history (unless I overlooked it). Do you have a plan there? My suggestion would be to take one subject at a time. Decide what the goals are and the general direction you want to take is, then if you need help finding materials that will fit, come back and ask again. I feel the panic in your post. I feel your stress level. More deep breaths. You can do this. It will be ok. We'll be glad to walk you though it, but just take one step at a time and try not to rush ahead of where she really is, even if she wants to.

I once bought a minivan and paid cash - like actual cash. The dealership was freaked out. They asked if I could write a personal check instead. However, the cash did work well in the bargaining process. I didn't mention it until we were almost in agreement, then said, I only have $X (laying it on the desk) and you'll have to come down to that or I walk. He went and got approval for the deal. Then in doing paperwork he came back with, there is this fee... and I simply said, the cash is there, take it or leave it. There is no more. They included all fees :lol: . It was honestly the best deal I've ever gotten on a vehicle.

Well, I can certainly see why they would say he has topic and organization problems. To start with the essay is really about his dream job, not where he would want to live. He didn't write to the prompt. From there it bounces around with disorganized paragraphs with topics that seem to come out of nowhere. I tutor essay writing online, and I read hundreds of essay (at various levels) each month. Your ds's essay would make me cringe. It is hard to even know where to start helping him fix it because it has so many issues. That said, it does look like the majority of Jr. High writing assignments I see. I don't think you have to panic that he is below level, but if this is an accurate reflection of what he can do, he may not be ready for TPS 9th grade English. I have always heard (but never used it) that it is challenging. How about trying a different provider for 9th grade? You need someone that will start at a bit lower level and bring him up to high school work. He is only going into 9th grade. He has plenty of time to get this, but TPS may not be the place.

Colleges may know, but they will not translate the grades to match everyone else's and it can effect scholarship opportunities.

I've never seen a college use a grading scale that uses an A+. The university I attended and the CC dd attended used a 90-80-70 A-B-C scale. Ds's university, the university dd will attend, and the local state U both do +/- within the 10 point scale, but no A+. The nursing program at dd's University does do a 7 point scale and told the students that it is typical in nursing programs. For our homeschool we stuck to 90-80-70 no +/- because I thought that was what most colleges do. Our experience now actually has more using +/- than not using it, but either way 10 point scale.

:001_huh: It is definitely enough. Neither one of my kids could have made it through all of that and ds is an English major in college. You have 18 books there, that is barely 2 weeks each. Is there going to be any writing about the books? I think the variety is nice, but you could organize them into quarterly themes if you wanted to. The writing is enough too, although I wouldn't say it is too much. All of it together would have taken my kids 1-2 hours /day all year. I see it as a solid 240 hours of work. Maybe your ds is faster than mine (not hard to accomplish), but I would be prepared to scale that if it is taking a lot more time than you had planned.