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  1. I am ok, but due to my foolish impulsiveness and anxiety not as well as I should be. I have a paid for 40 y/o home with no updates that I lived in for 12 years. I bought it and paid it of in 7 years. I thought I wanted to build a house in my dream neighborhood so I did. Huge mistake. I went from living a completely debt free life to one with a large house payment. I put 1/3 down payment on the new build. I still own my old  house. I added my parents to the deed (for homesteading) and now they live there. I am very happy about that. I am paying extra on the new  house payment but the taxes and HOA fees are high.

     

    I totaled my paid for 8 year old Honda and had to buy a new one. So I have a car payment for another 20 months. I have no money saved for my kid's college. I would sale this house but I would lose my shirt. So I am trying not to think about it. If I can pay it off within 6 years. They I can pay monthly for me kid's college.

     

    I am too scared to really spend money these days.

    I do have a 6-9  month emergency fund.

     

    I don't live paycheck to paycheck but I worry about money all the time.

     

  2. Yes, they can. But other regions have very different attitudes about university reputations. In Texas, you really are better off going to UT or TAMU if you want to live here after graduation. It makes no sense to pay outrageous private school tuition if you can attend a well regarded school and pay our bargain instate tuition.

     

    Could you check out the schools that are highly ranked on the National Research Council's Anthropology list? It ranks grad programs, but it's a decent proxy for undergrad at least for a first pass:

     

    http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124703/

     

    There are lots of state schools that would probably be very happy to get someone from MA and might even offer instate tuition.

     

    Happy hunting!

    My neighbor's kid is a freshman EE student at TAMU next month.

     

    We live in Lubbock.. It seems to make more financial sense for  D12 to attend Texas Tech so she may live at home and hopefully graduate debt free. 

     

    I struggle with TAMU and certain debt/ better job prospects  or TTU and most likely debt free/ not as good job prospects.

     

    D12 will likely end up in EE, CS, CE or ME.

  3. D12 is 2/3 through Foerster Alg 1. We have the Math without Borders Videos. David Chandler's videos are excellent. EDTA. D12 rarely uses the videos, she says the text explains it so well.

     

    I can not praise this program enough. My daughter is really clicking with it. I love the amount of problems. She does only the odd and all word problems. Also there is an excellent solution manual from Addison-Wesley.  D12 checks her own work with the solutions manual.

     

    Have you looked at tabletclass? I know there is a video solutions. I am leaning towards TabletClass combo with Jurgensen for geometry.

     

    We will be staying with Foerster for Alg II for sure.

     

     

  4. I am not a home schooler. I was feeling like the public school education my child was getting was deficient but did not know what to do about. I started lurking on CC and found me way over here. This is where I was meant to be. I would have never even heard about the different Algebra programs. I learned of Foerester on this sight and what an incredible fit for my D12 it has been. She is going to try the WWS I that I also learned from this site. This site is a wealth of information. I very so lucky to have stumbled on it.

     

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  5. Harry Potter is our all time favorite Percy Jackson is the 2nd fav, and Warrier is her 3rd all time fav.

     

     

    She read To Kill Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451 at my urging. 

     

    She read Half Bad, Wild Child, Steadfast, Spellcaster   Sorceress all of her choosing.

     

    She used to love reading but not so much anymore.....very sad. The only reason she reads at all as she has "technology" free time so she reads.

     

  6. Does anyone know the differences. I have read some reviews on Duke Tip Geometry but nothing on JHU CTY.

     

    They both use Jurgensen, JHU CTY shows a Thinkwell sample and Geogebra sample.

     

    They are both self paced. Have not found about grading yet.

     

    I am feeling some low level anxiety over finding the right fit.

     

    Algebra I is locked up tight with an awesome fit for D12 with Foerster. She is cruising through and has no struggles. She very,  very rarely gets a problem wrong as it is usually little error not an error us not understanding concept.

     

     

     

     

    A live online course is not an option.

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