Preparing homeschooled child for B&M high school? (Cross-post)

[Jenny in GA]

I also put this in the High School forum, but then thought it made more sense here because I'm talking about a child who is currently in seventh grade.

 

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At the moment, we are planning to send our oldest child to a public high school magnet program. She has never attended school before and has not even taken things like co-op classes.

 

I would love to hear any kind of advice or experience in making that transition.

 

1) What you and/or your child good or bad about the high school experience?

2) What, if anything, surprised you?

3) What areas, if anything, was your child not well prepared for?

4) Any advice what to do in the months before - either academically, documentation-wise, socially, etc?

 

Thanks!

[Lori D.]

I'm sure you'll get some great specific responses to your questions! In the meanwhile, I'll just direct you to some past threads on a similar topic:

 

Advice for me, DD applying to Aviation High School

Hypothetical question: what to do to prepare in the 4 years before going to public high school?

Tell me about putting an always homeschooled child in public school (in 8th grade)

Homeschooling to public high school

Going from homeschool to public school... Experiences, anyone?

How to prepare a homeschool kid for [going to a] high school?

Preparing to transfer to a public high school

Preparing 8th grader for public school 9th grade

 

BEST of luck! Warmly, Lori D.

 

[Ohdanigirl]

I answered in the other thread, and used my high schooler as the reference point.  I guess I should give you a new response using my middle schooler.  There are just a few differences.  I will come back and edit later.