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with work than a program says it should take, will that be a problem with high school credits? My dd is usually pretty quick with her work and gets it done correctly. Do you just count the credit if they finished all of the required work, even if it didn't take them as long as a credit it supposed to be?

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Absolutely. How many kids in ps sit in class waiting for everyone else to "get it" and speed through their homework in a study hall session. They earn the same credit as those who have to pay attention during class and struggle for a long time in the evening to do the same work.

 

But by the same token, one of the benefits of homeschooling is that you can cater the course to the student. So if the work was too easy, we might go through the book faster and move onto the next one in series, or study the subject more in depth. It depends on the subject, and what's the goal. It's nice for them to have some courses which are easier, but it's even more important to have courses which challenge them. Too many end up in college without having gotten good study habits because they didn't need to work at things in high school.

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If the curriculum is designed to be a one year course, then when the work is completed, award one credit. If your dd completes the entire course in 5 months, she still gets one credit. If she takes 18 months to complete the course, she still gets one credit. There is no need to penalize a student for working faster than the curriculum assumes, and a student who works more slowly doesn't get rewarded with an extra credit for taking longer.

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There is absolutely no problem with giving full credit if your daughter completes all the required work in the course within an abbreviated period of time. The fully accredited state of Florida Virtual School http://flvs.net/Pages/default.aspxl--in which my daughter my daughter was enrolled--has the motto "any time, any place, any path, any pace". D finished two classes in half the allotted time and received full credit.

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with work than a program says it should take, will that be a problem with high school credits? My dd is usually pretty quick with her work and gets it done correctly. Do you just count the credit if they finished all of the required work, even if it didn't take them as long as a credit it supposed to be?

 

Yes!!!! If a student finished the full curriculum work that is considered a full credit, he/she understood it, and did it correctly... he/she earned the full credit regardless of how long it took him/her.

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