Many schools focus on one type of dance more than another so if she only wants to do ballet look for a school that is known for it's ballet program. There is also a degree she can get that at my dd school is called Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Education. That program specifically focuses on learning to teach dance not just Dance Performance. With that kind of degree it is a little harder to double major as their are more requirements like student teaching etc. but a minor is certainly possible. If she does want to double major it may take her an extra year. My Dd is double majoring, we required it because Dancing is not a guaranteed career and in many areas short lived because of injuries so we wanted Dd to have something else to lean on when she couldn't find a company that wanted her (They are very picky) or when she ended her career (she has no desire at this time to teach). Just some things to think about when you're looking around.

and there are other reason's. My son did TT geometry and had great grades but couldn't remember most of the stuff he learned so his math scores on SAT weren't as high as could of been. TT has a different sequence than other courses. Many of their Pre-Cal info is really Alg II, so if your child has used Saxon many of it would be review. With their program you don't really get a complete math program until you finish their Calculus program, that's when everything catches up. You dd will also need something more rigorous. Nursing is math and science intensive. She will have to take a minimum of Calculus when she gets to college. I've heard good things about Jacob's geometry but haven't personally used it. I used Lial's for Pre-Caculus and found it somewhat challenging but I think most would say if you really want challenging you should use Chalkdust. Hopefully by me giving you my answer and moving this up, you'll get more people to respond to you. Good luck.

I have graduated 2 to college and applied to many. None of them cared whether or not we used an accredited school. Most only looked at SAT scores and some wanted SAT II. They do want a way to substantiate a homeschool transcript and this is how they do it. If a student has all A's on his report card but only gets an 800 on math and english combined it looks fishy but they know that that can happen with accredited schools as well. There are a few IVY league schools that require this but most schools don't. I think it's a big waste of money to do it just so you'll have a diploma from an "accredited" school when "mommy" diplomas are just fine. If your homeschool law requires it that's different, then you have no choice. I think if you ask on the college board you'll get a better answer because those are the ones who have already gone through the college process and have seen more first hand whether they truly made a difference. As for us, we had no problem at any of our schools with my "mommy" made diploma and we just don't have that kind of money to waste when it wasn't necessary.

As previous poster said it is very clear and to the point. My ds had done MUS Alg 1 in 9th grade and he did okay but not at the level I knew he was capable of. Some of the teaching starts to get a little more confusing at high school level, at least that was both my kids feelings. We tried TT for Geometry for son. Yes it is easy to use, especially for the parent, has review etc but by the end of the year he couldn't remember most of the things he was taught even though he had been testing in the 94 % all year. I could really see that when his SAT scores came in. We switched to Lial's after others recommendation and we found what son needed. Explanations were very, very clear. Son could almost do it independently, which was good because I'm not very good with math. Because of our success with it in Alg 2 we also used it for pre-calculus. Ds went to CC after graduating, took mature some and get some basic courses out of the way before transferring to college this fall. He easily tested into Calculus and when he took it he was one of the best in his class and he was finally able to see that he wasn't as bad in math as he thought. Based on our experience I'd definitely recommend Lial's

When he got to his Junior year we began having serious conversation about the direction he wanted to take. By his senior year he had all the college bound courses finished but I told him we could certainly find other courses for him to take if he wanted to do a 5th year. He himself told me he didn't feel ready to go to college because he was only going to be 17 and he felt that was too young but he still wanted to graduate on time. We decided that he'd take a year of courses at the CC, light courses covering some general ed of the college he would likely go to. He applied this past fall and was accepted to the college. He now has 24 credit hours under his belt that will be accepted by the school he is going to and both my husband and I as well as my son can see how much he has matured in just that one year. Now he's ready to go and is excited and we feel more comfortable at letting him go.

When we first moved into our house the first thing we did was put in a wood stove. We thought it would be great to heat with wood especially since we had an oil furnace. That lasted about 5 years. My husband spent most of his free time maintaing our wood supply, splitting it and stacking it. We kept a stack on the screened in outside porch so it would be a little easier to get. He also did all the chimney sweeping himself. As others mentioned you have to do a lot of work to keep them going 24 hours per day and the ashes and wood chips were horrible. Then the kids came and it was a chore to teach them to stay away from the stove not to mention that our house is very old and even with insulating and installing new windows a lot of the heat from the wood stove was going out of the house instead of staying in. Several years ago our furnace went out and it was time to look at alternatives. We decided to go with propane. In the long run, considering cost and time and effort, it is cheaper for us. We have a wall unit that heats our family room and dining room very cozy. We set the rest of the house at 66. We run the gas unit during the day and turn it off at night. It actually saves us more money than the wood stove did and like the wood stove we can still use it for heat if the power goes out. We also have a gas stove powered with propane so we have a source for heating food if the power goes out. Our gas company sells packaged deals that if you buy ahead of time they will set in your rates. We usually do that especially since they do have a 3 month payment schedule. Our stove is hooked up to a different propane source. We have a 100 lb tank for it and it usually lasts us a year or more. We are much more happy with the wall unit than we were with the wood stove. We get the same benefits with less cost and half the hardwork.

is it should be a place with easy access to a military institution. He will have benefits that could greatly reduce the cost of living. I've known soldiers who lived no where near a facility and when they needed medical services etc it was hard to find someone to take their medical insurance and even less who knew what you were talking about. Also keep in mind that not only will medical needs be easier to meet but you'll have access the PX and Commissary that could make it considerably cheaper than going to local stores. My cousin lives near a major metropolitan area and had no problem getting a job but lives within an hour of a military base so he gets lots of benefits more easily for himself and his family. Also keep in mind that living in a city with a major military institution can also work against you. It may look like their are plenty of job opportunities but not only will your husband be looking at them but so will all the others leaving the military and not wanting to move. My Dh works at our state's unemployment office as a veterans representative. It is at a major army base and the military have an extremely hard time finding a job because their is so much competition for them. Many employers prefer military applicants because not only do they qualify technically for the job but they are also more adaptable and more confident and more likely to put effort into it. So if you're military your application often goes to the top of the pile unless the pile is full of military applicants.

it's sacrilegious to remake a John Wayne movie. After all he was THE Western Actor for years. Makes me sad that all Hollywood can do is remake old movies.

This issue started last year when 4 new board seats came up for election. the people voted in candidates that said they were for neighborhood schools. Interestingly enough most of those voters were white (not being racist just that this issue does and has cause the socioeconomic issue to come up). Almost immediately issues arose. The school board was looking at the issue of going to neighborhood schools. They held 4 open forum meetings. At the first meeting the president of the NC NAACP got up and spoke out about his concerns that this would desegregate the schools. This lead to several more people standing up and in the end 4 people were ejected from the meeting and it got very roudy with the police having to be called in to calm things down. There were 3 other meetings but the school board refused to move to a bigger venue even after being offered on and so to get into the meeting you had to have a ticket. Needless to say the fires had already started and were then flamed. It was shortly after that that the NAACP has in fact filed suit. This summer the school board actually began looking at the district lines with neighborhood schools in mind. They had hired an outside firm to come up with suggestions. The board members started quarreling with themselves (which they had been doing since the election) As with all politics some like the lines and others didn't. Many of the parents objected because of the way the lines were drawn. Neighbors could have their children going to different schools because of the way the lines were drawn and that's not the idea the people had when they said they wanted neighborhood schools. There was actually a heated debate and the issue was put on the table. This past fall elections were once again held and of course the seats went to the candidates who didn't want neighborhood schools. They voted to repeal what the other board voted on and just look at the neighborhood model. Someone, I forget who asked that the accrediting company check out the schools because they didn't think the educational standards were not being adhered to. Now it's become an We'll do this if you let us do that and no you have to do it our way or we'll cancel your accreditation and the response is fine, we'll find someone else to do our accreditation after all we hired you not the other way around. This is all to say that from the beginning this has been a political issue. Neighborhood schools have not come close to being implemented and are barely in the discussion phase but like everywhere else the politicians can't get along so the fighting continues. And like anything else the media see what could be an exciting issue and they put it in the headlines. Actually for those of us living here it's getting boring and we just want what's best for the kids which is obviously being ignored.

We're not close relatives but we are cousins non the less. My husbands ancestor came over from England. He inherited a large amount of land in southern NC and northern SC. Some of his family tried to have him killed so they could inherit it. Obviously the plan didn't work and it split the family so some of them changed their names (hence our relationship with Obama). Later some of the family later changed their names back but Obama's line is still there. His great, great, great grandmother was the daughter of one of my husbands family. My SIL was the one who figured it out. She has done an exhaustive and extensive investigation into my husband family tree and it's side branches, to the point of visiting family cemeteries and census reports etc. (lots of leg work). She saw him on TV and noticed his ears and jokingly said they looked like my Dh family ears (one of their most distinguishing features). So she started looking in the family tree for a relation to his mom and sure enough there it was.

I guess they are a way of making the seller feel better but the banks really don't want to do them. Usually the price for the short sale is much lower and the bank wants the house to foreclose. In many of these situations the bank knows and does end up making more money auctioning the house off or selling it themselves than they would have with a short sale so that is why they make everything so slow etc. They want the seller or the buyer to get tired of waiting so they can proceed with the foreclosure. Banks are still out for the profit. Nothing has changed.

It doesn't sound like Fibro to me and my first question would be is it even related. The aches in the joints may be signaling a symptom of a completely different problem. You need to see a Dr to have them do some evaluating. The migraines and headaches could be due to the TMJ or even severe grinding of teeth. The pains in the legs etc could be many things. It could be signs of arthritis and in the back of my mind it seems like I've heard of some kind of syndrome that can be triggered by the flu that causes these problems. Just can't remember what it's called. I'd definitely see my Dr and have a good work up done.

My husband doesn't get his W2 until the end of Jan but by then we have all the other paperwork we need to file taxes so we do that first and then we have all the info for the FAFSA. By doing it that way we avoid having financial aid being changed because guestimate was wrong. We have never had it be a problem for our children getting financial aid. I do agree that it also depends on the college. Our children attend the same college and they want the FAFSA in by April 1 but they will tell you they award financial aid on a first come first serve basis so that's why we do it as soon as we can. We did do an estimated one the first year and our financial aid had to be adjusted. We lost some grants and ended up having to take Stanford loans. If we had had the right info, we would have been in a better position to avoid the Stanford loans. That's why we do taxes first now.

We did not do it because our state does dual enrollment. The child takes classes at the CC that count for high school and they earn college credit for them. The state pays for everything but books but you have to be in high school to take advantage of this program. For us it was the cheaper way to go. They could earn a year or two of college credit at no cost to us and they had time to mature before they went to college. Both of mine went to college with almost a year under their belts, so to speak. They could have continued at the CC but we had saved enough money doing it this way and they were ready to go to college so they went. Sometimes it does boil down to the money and I think the maturity is important as well. My son is like a lot of boys and took longer to mature. The full four years gave him that opportunity. Dd was more than ready to go off to college but I doubt I would have early graduated her either.

year you are going to be attending school. So if you plan to go to school in the Fall after you graduate. You can't do the FAFSA until Jan of that year but, you can do a practice one so your parents can see what they're contribution is expected to be. Keep in mind what it says is your parents portion isn't really true for all your college expenses. It's what portion of the Pell Grant your parents will have to pay. The lower your EFC (estimated family contribution) the more Pell Grant you will receive and probably will get some good need based grants at some of the schools you want to attend. I think the most you can receive for a Pell Grant is $5500 now but may have gone up to $5750. This amount you are awarded is determined by your parents salary assets etc. It is also to cover one year or two semesters so it gets split up into 2 payments. We usually wait until end of Jan to do ours and since most of the information it requests is in our tax information we do our taxes first and then the FAFSA. Then they don't have to come back and adjust quote for Dc.

and what he or she will go through the rest of their lives. I have a different spelling name and although it is not out of the ball park like others it can be very challenging at times. First, I do like my name. It is unique but I'm so tired of people looking at it and not know how to say it. (this difference should be simple enough to figure it out). Anytime I have to give my name out over the phone or to a person face to face I can't say Alice, I have to spell it because if they are looking for it on the computer or on a list they won't find it using the traditional spelling. That at times can make you pull your hair out. Even once you spell it they get this deer in the headlights, look and so you spell it again. When I was younger it was made worse because I had a very unusual last name that most people couldn't pronounce either so I ended up looking at people stare at me becasue they didn't know what to call me or I ended up spelling my whole name. I'm very happy I married someone with a normal name. Unique spellings are nice but there are a lot of downfalls for the child as they become an adult. Please think about that before giving your child their name.

They have some that come in various shades.

This is a heavy load for a 9th grader. Most people who homeschool high school think it should be different and much harder than what they've been doing so they make the mistake of piling on work. This is an adjustment time. It's kind of like Kindergarden was. In 9th you are begining to dig deeper into subjects you have only skimmed in the past and the conceptual ideas are harder. If you are using Lial's are you having her do all the excercises. If so that's too much. With Lial's you usually only do odd problems. If she is making messy mistakes then you need to slow down and help her be more responsible. Make her redo the problem. You can also use methods you used in MUS. Make her teach you the concept. It will help her cement it into her head better and show you just where she is struggling. Physics is definitely a higher grade course. It is one that many people use during high school but not until 11th or 12th grade, partially because of the math but also the material needs a more mature head. In my area of the woods, our science progression is :Biology, Chemistry, Physics and then some sort of advanced science. You need to find a way to cut out at least a course. Around here our public school students take 5 courses. That's too low in my book so my kids did 6 for 9th grade, giving them time to adjust to the more advanced learning and then I bumped it up to 7 & 8 subjects a year. You also need to remember this is a time of a lot of things going on. Her hormones are starting to kick in and although many people think it's no big deal and shouldn't be used as an excuse, it can make a big difference in a life. She may have trouble concentrating, be more irritable etc. Also this is a time of life where teenagers actually need more sleep than they got when they were young, although many rarely due. Studies have shown that teenagers need 9-10 hrs of sleep per night to have the energy to tackle the heavier loads they are experiencing. Another words not only is it a major time of change in their schooling experience but also in their physical experience and you have to give that some focus in your school as well. Talk with her about what's going wrong. She's becoming an adult now. Ask her how she feels and why. Seriously look not only at the schedule but at your curriculum too. Is she feeling overwhelmed, not understanding a certain curriculum, is it too boring for her. Look around together and see if there is something else that might work better. When my kids were in high school that had some choice in what we did and used. I would pick curriculum I thought was doable for me (several not just one) and we would look at it together. Your dd will know if it's something she can do. Trust her instincts some too. I still made the ultimate decision and so will you but it help, even if only to make them feel more of an adult, to involve them in this process. Take some time off during the Holidays and just enjoy yourselves. Don't worry about school, just rest for now. Tackle this stuff anew in January when school starts back. sounds like you both need a rest right now and will be better able to think this stuff through in a couple of weeks. Good luck and you know you'll get lots of help with curriculum questions if you need to ask them.

I think if you use these ISBN's and look on abebooks.com, you'll find them for A LOT less. I've never had any trouble with the sellers on this site and their descriptions are usually spot on.

Jann in TX likes them. My son was struggling in Alg 1 with MUS. I realized he needed something different. We tried TT for Geometry and forgot almost everything he was taught over the summer break. We did Lial's for Alg 2 and Pre-Calc and he loved it, and bloomed with it. It explains things very well and shows them step by step. The answer book is also step by step so they and you can see where they went wrong. The ease of teaching is a very big plus for me but there was also a plus. The older editions work as well as the new ones so I used a 7th edition and got what I needed for $30. He's now at CC and just made a B in calculus and said a lot of what he was being taught he already knew because he had learned it in Lial's.

He finished his finals last Fri and earned 3 A's and 1 B. He has suprised me in so many ways this semester. For years I have been fighting to get him to write just one paragraph. This semester he has written 2 research papers and countless smaller ones. All wonderful. I didn't even know he could write that well. His teacher liked one so much she asked him to send her an email copy so she can use it as an example of excellent work in her other classes! He always thought math was his worst subject. It never mattered what I said. He has come home more than once saying how easy math was today. Although he did not get and A he only missed it by a few points and finally realizes he CAN do math!

In our state if you take courses as dual enrolled you are still considered a freshman, no matter how many hours you bring with you. You are only considered a transfer student if you have taken college classes after you graduate. So seeing the various answers, I think your best bet would be to check. Personally I'd take the SAT and see how she does. If the school doesn't need it then fine but if they do you already have it. I would think under her situation she would be okay if she just did an average score for your state.

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What you learn, depending on the style, can help you deal with multiple attackers, people with knives and very aggressive people. It is also not true that you will automatically be weaker as a woman. With most martial arts you are being trained to defend yourself. Hopefully you never do but if you do you can't do it haphazardly. When you first learn martial arts you tend to put everything you have into it but as you continue learning you begin to learn control and will be less prone to over react. It is true that someone with a black belt is held to a higher degree of accountability but that's because they know they can truly hurt someone if you don't use some control. Lethal force means that you are doing more than you need to do. If the person has a knife and attacks you it's not lethal force for you to defend yourself even if you end up turning his knife on himself, which is very possible. I would relax and continue the course and just try working on controlling the power you have,

He may actually be Bipolar. Many people who self treat with Alcohol and if there's a family history of it, it makes it that more possible. Most Bipolars don't like the feeling and side effects from taking medicine but need something. The alcohol helps relax them and give them the relief they need. They just don't see that turning to alcohol is worse than taking pills. When people think of Bipolar they think of people switching moods from super excited to super depressed but that isn't always true. Many Bipolars only experience Depression but their depressions are slightly different. For this reason I'd have him see a psychiatrist rather than a personal Dr. He'd ask more questions and could get a better idea of what's going on and whether anti depressants are really the way to go.