Of particular interest to Catholic families -- Homeschool Connections is offering 20% off of a selection of their live, interactive courses, plus $60 off of their recorded online courses (regularly $30 per month) if you pay for a year in advance - 150 courses for the entire family. Here is the link: http://conta.cc/1FpTww5.

I got an email that they're having a Cyber Monday deal, but it's open now. http://conta.cc/1FpTww5

I've graduated a couple of severely dyslexic kids. The two things they struggled with in high school were spelling and languages. Latin was a nightmare (note that my non-dyslexic kids do great in Latin / Greek). I wish someone had told me that dyslexic children struggle with languages. If I could do it over again, I would have had them learn ASL (American Sign Language). ASL is the one language that dyslexics are able to learn easily because it is multi-sensory and that's how dyslexics learn.

I don't know of a live online course next semester. He could take it for free through Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/math/trigonometry, if he's willing to do recorded lessons. Maybe plug the computer in the TV and it'll seem more like a live teacher :-)

Perhaps Ken Burn's documentaries. They're really well done. Most are free on Amazon Prime. I don't know about Netflix.

Phillip Campbell isn't well known like Joseph Pearce, but he's a rock star at our house. His history classes are the ones my kids watch with their dad. He makes history really fun and interesting. My 14-year-old daughter likes Kris Coreirra's (sp?) anatomy classes. My 17-year old's favorite is Dr. Rioux and his philosophy classes. She likes Monica Ashour's theology classes too.

There was a lot of problems with the writing when the teacher's son was going blind and she broke her wrist. Since then they've hired several new teachers to help her. She designed the program and trained the new teachers to do the teaching and grading. No problems since then that I know about. I really like the thoroughness of the program and how it builds on each class. Here's a story about her son that they posted on the parent Facebook group, http://www.wwmt.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Blind-dancer-uses-Google-Glass-to-keep-dancing-58008.shtml#.VGqSzYeFOTp

Wow. Now I know what I'm doing today!

I've used both the live and recorded classes. Their live classes are more inexpensive than other online schools, but it's still more money than I like to spend. So, we haven't done a lot live. We did Latin since it's a hard subject for me personally. And we did writing because of the difficulty of grading on my own. Now that Homeschool Connections has the grading service for the recorded Latin and writing, I may do that instead next year. My kids really like the interaction of the live classes though, so we'll see. I like that you can pick and choose classes and don't have to sign up for a whole program. The Unlimited Access is a godsend. It's inexpensive and there's a lot to choose from. If you're not Catholic, keep in mind that most of the classes are taught from a Catholic ethos. The writing program (which is excellent, imo) would be fine, but history and literature are going to have a strong Catholic influence. And theology too of course. The recorded classes are especially good if you have a self-directed learner. If not, make sure you're keeping your children on task. Put it on your planner to follow up. Of course, you'll be doing all the grading unless you pay extra for grading services. Most of the classes come with answer keys. Also, you can do classes as a family if your kids are close together. The kids watch the history classes on the television with my husband.