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technically your obligation is fulfilled, and if the buyer is really obnoxious I guess you could say "take a hike" - but really, if you bought something from someone and it never showed up, even if the tracking showed delivered, wouldn't you expect the seller to refund you? We run an online business (husband and I) and we self-insure, so we just refund or reship something that says delivered but hasn't arrived.
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Hah, I dunno about math. My son is just 5; daughter is decent at math but Does Not Like It. We've just switched from Saxon to Life of Fred, though (it's in the mail), so maybe that will make a difference and I can convince her to do AoPS. I can't imagine its being more boring than Saxon, anyway.
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my daughter is super into greek mythology (and other mythology) right now too. She's almost 9; we've been learning classical greek, she's planning to sit the NME next year, etc. Has your son read the Rick Riordan books? They're terribly written and kind of full of unnecessary violence and some teeny romance, but she loved them anyway.
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I looked those up, thanks for the recommendations :) G3 and Athena's Advanced Academy seemed like the same thing (same wording for FAQs, etc.), and it looks like a good fit. We're doing Greek but my daughter is only 8 (and son is younger) so I doubt they'd be ready for Lukeion yet.
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Does anyone have recommendations or reviews of the various options for online classes targeted specifically towards gifted kids? I've seen stuff from Stanford, John's Hopkins, GHF, etc., but I'm not sure if there is some consensus about which programs are worth it vs not worth it. FWIW, my daughter and son are bright but not profoundly so (or if it is profound, it's marginal). We homeschool.
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I wouldn't worry too much about any of it. If you don't want to listen to her talk for so long about herself/her kid, bring something else to do for distraction and to make it look like you're obviously not into talking/listening.
As for the content - if the school situation is as you describe, the kid is probably a relative genius in the school. The Google says the average IQ of an MIT student is 140, so 130 is not beyond the pale; likely the kid will end up somewhere else, but what the hey. When I was 12 I planned to be an astronaut.
The autism comment doesn't strike me as all that offensive. Autistic kids are weird, for the most part. That's often how you realize they might be on the spectrum, right? It's not meant (likely, unless you saw something in her tone that was exceptional) as any more pejorative than speaking frankly/casually normally is.
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oops wrong thread
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Honestly, I think it looks good. What do you feel is wrong with it? We've been going through WWS1 for the past month or two (my daughter is almost 9), and I'm not hugely focused on perfection at every stage - as long as the basic requirement of the lesson was met, we move on. That summary makes sense to me.
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We're doing WWS - we just started homeschooling a few months ago, so I decided to skip WWE entirely (my daughter is almost 9). It works. She often takes the subject of whatever the writing is about for the day (the Titanic, smallpox, etc.) and does some creative writing thing with it, so it's not entirely a bore. :)
Online Classes for Gifted Kids
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Athena's sounds like a good fit for my daughter - she's almost 9, very into literature/history/mythology, reads at about a 7th grade level, and has no friends currently who are into any of the same things or can even talk to her about them. We do Classical Greek (Athenaze) but I doubt she'd be ready for the rigor of Lukeion (from what I can see on their site, anyway). Maybe in the fall, though - we've just started homeschooling this past winter, so moving at their own pace (instead of slowing down to fit public school) is sort of a process of discovery at the moment.