Here's what I would do: Pre-Algebra (or Intro to Algebra), 1.0 credit, Grade: A U.S. History, 1.0 credit, Grade: A English 9 or English I, 1.0 credit, Grade: A American Sign Language, 1.0 credit, Grade: A Health, .5 credit, Grade: A I don't know about the science.

Great British Baking Show on Netflix.

Wikiup Trading Post? Here's a link to some reviews: https://www.yelp.com/biz/wikieup-trading-post-wikieup Oh, it looks like Cool Water Cafe has better reviews! Here's a link: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g31406-d6277502-Reviews-Cool_Water_Cafe-Wikieup_Arizona.html

Not necessarily before 18, but around then: Find a new doctor (pediatrician may let them stay through high school graduation if you're lucky), Find new dentist if you have been using a pediatric dentist. Teach how to fill out forms for all those medical and dental places (or sit by dc and make dc do it with you right there).

My dd did MUS in high school through PreCal. In college for nursing, she is required to take Statistics, which she had to place into by getting a certain score (540?) on her SATs in the math section. She had gotten through all of Algebra 2 before taking the SAT the first time and not getting the minimum score, so then we started PreCal and had to jump ahead to certain chapters plus do some Kahn Academy before taking it the next time and achieving a 570. She is now eligible for Statistics at her college. How well she would do in that, I don't know. She hasn't taken it yet. I did buy some statistics workbooks and do a semester of home-grown Statistics and Probability with her. HTH!

Brita works great for us, and we are also in Texas, even further south than Slache. Just wanted to let others out there know. Don't blame the whole state. Blame her city. 🙂 I am sorry your water is so bad. I wish I had a solution for you. I think SA has soft water, doesn't it? Maybe others with soft water can chime in.

If you don't mind a Catholic resource, Seton Books has English 7 which is a straight-forward grammar workbook. I really liked those and wish I had discovered them sooner.

Age. Quite honestly. Second half of seventh grade, a switch flipped.

An owl statue or picture? Fake owls are commonly used around here as bird deterrants.

Lakeshore Learning has tons of great manipulatives for those concepts. We used them even in high school geometry as refreshers. Build and Learn Volume Kit: https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/products/p/TT567 Build and Learn Area and Perimeter Kit: https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/products/p/TT566 Fold and Learn Geometric Shapes (useful for figuring out the shapes involved in surface area): https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/products/math/shapes-geometry/fold-learn-geometric-shapes/p/FG349

Story of the World: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer comes to mind.

Can you fight the private school on this? They tend to listen to parents. You could just outright make it clear that you will enroll your son if he learns the traditional way and you will absolutely not do it with Summit. If they hear this from enough people, perhaps they will change their plans.

Usually I find it in the regular sour cream and butter section. It's never by the tofu. I do have to get it at Sprouts or Natural Grocers, though, as my regular grocery stores don't carry it.

Tofutti sour cream is really good, as is Earth Balance margarine. I think the loaded baked potato idea might work. Throw in some bacon and green onion. Yum!

Since you already bought it, I wanted to make a suggestion. What you are actually "supposed" to do with MUS is the teacher watches the DVD and then teaches the student the lesson afterward on a white board. A lot of us bypass that and just have the student watch the DVD, but that isn't actually what is supposed to happen. The textbook is not written at all so someone can self-teach. It is more like supplemental info to what Mr. Demme did in the video. If you had mentioned that your ds didn't watch videos and that you didn't want to teach, I'm sure none of us would have recommended MUS. Sorry about that. Last thing... I was thinking maybe Key To Geometry might be a fit? There are samples on cbd.com: https://www.christianbook.com/key-to-geometry-books-1-8/pd/43101?event=ESRCG

If he did well with Abeka, why don't you get Abeka 1st grade stuff and do it with him?

I made my own, but I did put two blanks lines, my signed name on one and the date on the other. A gold seal in between.

Melissa, Is he watching the dvds? We didn't hardly read the "textbook" at all except for answers or if we were confused by something. It was watch the dvd, then do the student worksheet A. Next day, do student worksheet B. Next day, C. And so on. I did buy some hands on things for angle measurement and shapes and such, mainly from Lakeshore Learning, but that was to add a fun hands on aspect to it. Hope you figure out a way to make it work. It was the least painful geometry we could find.

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OP, I have a much younger brother on the spectrum. I picked which college he went to, based on his skills, interests, abilities, and my parents' ability to pay. He went there, did fine, graduated, moved back in with my parents. I typed up his resume, found some job prospects, encouraged him to apply, and he has been working at that employer for the last twelve years or so. It is a "career" type position and he is doing well, still living with my parents but owns his own car and is a full-time professional. You may have to do more hand-holding with your son than a neuro-typical kid. That's okay.

If you are concerned that you cannot afford the schools, then you should probably keep looking. Son is content with these choices because Son is not paying the bills, I would imagine. FWIW, my dd has chosen to live at home and attend school, so she only applied to one place, our local university. If she hadn't gotten in, she would have attended our local community college.

Call it done. It's May. It IS done.

I can only tell you what we did. I don't know that it was the best way. I wasn't going to do geography because I was doing three years of world history and one of US History. However, in my state, they do tend to require World Geography in public high school, and I wanted my dd to slide into admissions into our public university with no question, so once she picked her school, I decided to throw in a year of World Geography. We started with Ace Paces and got about half way through. They are painfully the opposite of modern, however, so I had to stop. We then studied Usborne's Geography and DK Geography. That finished out our year. If I had to do it again, I'd probably do something else. I had really been hoping for a git'er done approach, though. Sigh.

World History: Our Human Story is the high school level of the K12 books (Human Odyssey is the middle school level). It's almost 1000 pages, so presumably you could just do the ancients pages (I'm guessing 250 pages or so) and supplement as desired.

My dh is very handy, and he won't do exterior doors. So my vote is hire someone.