Heather in VA
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Liberty College should be closed-minded enough for your requirements,tho a bit too large.
I doubt it. My daughter goes there and while she's definitely on the liberal side in comparison to the average student, it still isn't nearly as close-minded as it's reputation implies and certainly not as much as the OP. Many female professors, working even though they are married, plenty of female students studying for a career not a husband, a large international population in both student and faculty from the 'inferior' parts of the world, and even their chapel services are open to people for which Liberty might not be considered a typical audience. Heck, Bernie Sanders spoke there a few months ago.
I think he's going to end up needing to look at somewhere like Crown College or other places that are specifically created to develop the patriarchal worldview. Of course then there is the issue of accreditation. If he wants to go to law school, he isn't doing it with a degree from somewhere like that.
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The part of my list where I mentioned service academies was solely related to those being some of the schools more conservative students from our school like and/or attend.
Having been former military myself and a cadet at VT, I fully agree that I doubt they would fit the OP's other requirements. I can't recall any incidents of females who could do the job being dissed due to their gender - same as males.
Some in the military have stay at home wives. That's a personal preference just as with any other occupation.
Not only that but in the military women hold positions of authority. I just had lunch with a friend the other day - she's a Commander in the Navy. Something tells me the OP wouldn't appreciate being directed by a woman.
The bottom line is that this kind of worldview doesn't just present a problem choosing a college. If this person really believes that married women belong at home and western people and culture are superior, then he's going to have a tough time in the work force or really anywhere outside the narrow circle he, and presumably his family, has created. Choosing a college is the least of the issues.
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I think we are on he same page. I was trying to say that while academies may be viewed as very conservative in some circles they do not meet what the OP says he's looking for.
Yes - absolutely. That's how I took it. I think, and actually hope, there are very few schools that meet the OP's requirements, no matter how conservative they are viewed to be.
Edited to add... I had missed that someone has suggested service academies.
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The service academies would not meet these requirements. Even though students sleeping in quads or occupying presidents' offices might think a service academy epitomizes all things conservative. Service academies are currently around 25% female. 100% of those women intend to spend at least several years in the military, doing the same jobs as most of their male classmates. The majority of their male classmates don't think twice about this. Women have been serving on combatant ships and in combat aviation squadrons since around the time the current students were in diapers.
Have you considered looking at more mainstream colleges and being active in student or off-campus ministries?
One thing that I've observed is that schools of the type you are describing tend to have pretty high tuition and little financial aid.
"All things conservative" to most people doesn't include saying that a woman has a particular "place" or touting one culture as 'vastly superior' to the rest of the world. I don't think the OP is really looking for a conservative place to study. Most conservative, Christian schools won't fit the bill either. They educate women and prepare them for careers, married or not. They teach students that God loves all people, not to feel superior to the rest of the world.
I would encourage the OP to broaden his horizons and consider the idea that at maybe at 16/17 years old there might be some ideas out there that are worth at least being exposed to. It's possible you still have some things to learn and understand.
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They are coming out with a spine text geared for elementary students. The first one will be available next month for Year 2 (Middle Ages/Medieval) with one per year after that.
Here's a link to the webpage explaining the new product
http://www.biblioplan.net/p/remember-days.html
And a link to the sample --- it looks beautiful...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3VoCJhlMyMuTGNJVmtkbkpvNlE/view
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I would love to find a good text for this for middle school. Several of the big name companies (Abeka, BJU) have high school geography texts but they are dry as dust.
Build Your Library has a decent course as linked above and it's on my list as a possibility but it's still not really what I'm looking for. I would love a spine but haven't found one yet.
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Then you will want to watch your accreditations. You will need to be able to get into law school after college.
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Bible school is safe because he has several friends from around the country that he knows through an activity he participates in that are or will be attending there. He wouldn't be alone even if he isn't planning ministry for a full time occupation but it would give him a safer emotional environment to develop without the complete security of being home. But obviously if these means is chances of pursuing an academic degree in the future (with the necessary financial aid that would be needed) are hindered we have to keep looking for options. I don't really want him sitting home for a year doing nothing. I can't see spending a year in a minimum wage job will do much for him developing other than telling him that he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life doing that but he could tell that now. It's more than just where will he go to school next year or perhaps the year after. It's really the "what do you want to do with your life" question that he's stuck on. And until he is able to have a least a sense of that I feel like everything else is on hold.
My quoting doesn't seem to be working properly but I want to highlight these two things. I think the fact that Bible school is safe is exactly why it might not be the best choice. The idea is to help him grow and expand his horizons. He can't do that well in a place that is safe and allows him to continue with the status quo.
And I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the idea of a job. He would be at home, which would give him a safe place, but it would expand him beyond the fully comfortable environment and give him some independence and responsibility. Not to mention he would make money which would help toward his goals as well.
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What do you want to study? Do you have a career plan or an idea of a major?
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I do think it's considered college. You said he'd do this at a college, not by taking classes at church once a month. Schools looking at him for transfer wouldn't care that it was biblical studies. They would consider that college. Is there any way he can do a gap year and Bible study without enrolling in a college?
Again, you can check with the schools he's interested in and give them the name of the place he's considering studying. If it's not an official college, then maybe it would be different but the schools should be able to tell you.
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That's a tough one. You'd probably have to ask the college(s) he is interested in. If I were to guess I'd say he'd be a transfer student even if nothing transfers. The verbiage used at the schools we looked at say 'a freshman is a student who has not attended college since graduating from high school'. They don't specify that the classes must transfer or the the college attended must be accredited. After all other transfer students could very well have credits that won't transfer just because of the college policy, not because the school wasn't accredited. But they would still be transfer students.
Personally I'd never send my child to a school that wasn't accredited, especially if she wanted to transfer to another school. There is really very little to gain from it. Their credits won't count for anything and as you've pointed out, it could really affect the scholarships. Not to mention that getting into a school as a transfer student is much more difficult than as a freshman. There are just not as many openings.
He might be better off taking community college classes. He'd still be a transfer student but at least the credits would transfer.
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We use Biblioplan and love it. The text (called Companion) it well-written, thorough, and engaging. I've use it for high school too.
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You'd think since I'm getting ready to graduate my 2nd child and I have multiple writing curriculums that I wouldn't need writing help. But I do.
My 3rd daughter (almost 13) is ADD and has some executive processing issues. Most of the academic issues are in math but writing is a challenge as well. She actually likes to write. She loves to write narrations and does them well. But when I try to move her to write her own ideas the problem becomes organization. She has lots of good ideas but doesn't naturally understand grouping of ideas, organizing information etc. WWS has helped this to a certain extent. She can do the outlining when the paragraph(s) are canned like they are in WWS, but taking that next step to organizing information in her head is just too much for her to handle.
I want to use something that will focus on a process to help her organize. I know a lot of people use IEW for people who need process but that didn't work for us. It doesn't even need to be something that would be good long term, just something to help move her to being able to take information and put it in solid and organized paragraphs and beginning to put those separate paragraphs into an essay. My other girls didn't need specific instruction at this stage. This one needs to be guiding through. For the future I'm considering Put that in Writing or maybe Write Shop. I also have Writing Strands. But I'm not wedded to any of them so other suggestions are ok. But it seems like I need something in between to help the organizational issues. Something that has you use your own information.
Thoughts?
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Grade skipping at young ages can be a mistake because you don't have an idea how maturity is going to go in the teen years. It is better to keep a child nominally in his grade and provide acceleration within the nominal grade. You can place a child in the math level he is ready for (algebra in fifth or sixth grade) and wait to decide if he is one of those exceptional students who is both academically prepared for and mature enough for the challenge of a competitve university. If you skip multiple grades in elementary school, you limit your ability to make a judgement call about maturity through the teen years.
I think this is the key. Sure you can have an idea because often mature kids are mature when they are young as well, but you don't really know when they are young. Wait to decide.
My 16 year old is graduating from high school this year and will be going away to college. I have no worries about her maturity or ability to handle it academically or socially. She was always very mature and advanced but we never considered skipping a grade when she was younger. In fact we didn't even plan for the early graduation until last summer when we realized she was ready and it was time.
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Yes, he's going to be considered a transfer whenever it happens. He has fewer credits than originally planned for, but way too many to give up for freshman status!
Did he officially graduate from high school? If not, many schools will consider him a freshman regardless of the number of the credits. They define a freshman as someone who as not taken college classes since high school graduation even if everything they took in their last few years of high school were college classes.
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DD was just accepted to Arcadia University with honors college and merit scholarship.
Just two more schools outstanding... time to start narrowing down the choice.
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Deleting my post - I should know better than to post in these threads. I've changed my mind already :-)
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Around 20 hours in the gym per week... hopefully training L8, but she's injured right now, so I don't know. :(
Sorry to hear she's injured. My gymnast has had so many injuries over the years. It's a brutal sport. Hope she's on the mend soon.
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I would wonder if there is any concern that homeschooling would spawn a desire in the mother to ask for custody back. She might be ok with things are they are now but then knowing that not only are her kids going to be living with a new mother figure but that person is going to be teaching them school, it might spark a desire to undermine that relationship. Custody agreements are often agreeable to everyone until there is a new person.
If your fiancé has an attorney or mediator he might want to run it by that person to see what your options might be if the mother decides to use it as a reason to change the agreement.
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Haven't been here a lot in the past year, but this board has helped us so much through the years! Adding Ds's acceptances from today and yesterday:
Arcadia University w/ Merit scholarship
Rutgers University
Congrats!! My daughter applied to Arcadia as well. We applied pretty late so we haven't heard yet. She's looking at the 3/2 forensics program.
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What I wish the program included? Memory work. There are writing assignments included for upper grades, but you have to buy the cool history.
I just want to point out that it does include quite a lot of memory work. It's in the Family Guide. It's a relatively new feature so if you bought used you might not have it.
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An update to my daughter's acceptance to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Today she got her acceptance to their honors college.
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I'm on my 4th year of using BP. I think it's great and the Companion is one of the best history texts for homeschoolers around. I find it very flexible and then nice and independent for high school. My senior recently took a US history course as dual enrollment from a university to get credit for when she goes to college and the Companion had so much more information than her college text she used it instead of the text to study.
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Daughter's second acceptance is in... Virginia Commonwealth University!
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Looking for a college
in The College Board
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I think the bold part is the key. Sure people can think that for their family this is the right thing. I have no issue with that. Most of us homeschool parents stay at home, not all but most. The problem I see from the OP's posts is that he is declaring married women to be at home as THE right thing, not even as something he's hoping his wife does. So I think he would have a serious problem working with women. My first thought was that I hope he never has daughters so he doesn't have the opportunity to raise women who think they have only one purpose. But then I realized that if he had sons he would raise them to believe that women only had the one purpose. So I hope he goes off to college and meets people who can show him that Christianity isn't about this kind of legalism and oppression.
As far as the superiority thing, I don't see much of that either. I live in a very ethnically and racially diverse place. My husband and I are not the same race. The whole tone of the OP is disturbing. Usually someone isn't as willing to come out and say that he finds a particular race or culture to be superior so it makes me wonder what he thinks that he keeps closer to the vest. Of course the OP just joined WTM yesterday and this was his first post so maybe the point of the post was to rile people up.