12th Grade Planning for 22-23!

[ScoutTN]

Yikes! How did we get here so fast?!

Dd will be 100% outsourced. Homeschool high school has not turned out how I wanted it to be in that respect, but many circumstances beyond my control have required it, so here we are.

Math AP Stats at WHA (Eric Reini is Dd’s favorite math teacher!)

English World Lit at Center for Lit.

Foreign Languages French 3 at local tutorial with a favorite teacher. 

Also Arabic 1, DIY, with an assortment of resources including 1 on 1 conversation with a native speaker, some online things, and books of course. 

History Government and Econ at our local tutorial. 

Electives AP Music Theory. Plan A imploded. Working on Plan B.

Health at our local tutorial

PE = dance

Extra curriculars: AHG, piano, musical theater, church youth group

 
What is your senior planning?!

Edited April 28, 2022 by ScoutTN

[Arcadia]

DS16 will be doing all his classes as dual enrollment classes just like this year.  He is my slower child so he takes 2 classes every quarter making it about equivalent to 5 high school credits.

ETA:

He will be trying to knock off general education requirements that transfer to the state universities as those are the large lecture hall classes at the state universities.

Tentative plan:

English (hopefully completed by this summer)

Math (the next in sequence)

Genetics (to satisfy biological science requirement)

Japanese (the next in sequence)

Photography (fine arts, and he likes photography)

 

Edited February 1, 2022 by Arcadia

[BusyMom5]

My plan is all DE, hopefully on campus.   I have the list of classes that transfer for her degree,  so working with that, trying to find the best balance:

Fall Semester- still deciding,  but currently 

Chemistry 1 on campus

English 2 online

Speech on campus

Government ???

 

Spring Semester

Art or Theater 

Philosophy 

?????

 

*she's doing ASU College Algebra right now, will finish over the summer.  We may end up doing a few more classes through them.  

 

Edited April 28, 2022 by BusyMom5

[Roadrunner]

Oh lord. Just typing on this thread gives me stomach cramps. I will have a senior next year! 😱

He needs biology, which he doesn’t want to learn.

And he needs US History, which he also doesn’t feel particularly crazy about.

He reads a ton and is lobbying to unschool all of English and history, but I am a rule following paranoid parent, so he will have no such luxury next year. 
So he will suffer through AP English Language, AP French (if I can find one), Biology (really hope for a dual enrollment here so I can avoid labs), US history (still debating to self study for AP, unschool, or throw him into a CC for this). What am I missing? Oh yes, math. He will have a year off from formal math, but will probably spend 20 hours on it every week anyway. 

And music, lots of music, always music… but that I continue to put under extracurriculars. 

[Sneezyone]

So far, it looks like AP or DE Calc 1, Physics, VA/US Government, Women's History, Culinary Arts and AP or DE English Comp plus cheer and part-time grocery cashiering.

Edited February 1, 2022 by Sneezyone

[freesia]

This is what I have for right now.  He has a lot of online work this year and has begun to complain about too much time in front of a screen. So, I might change this.

Math: Calc1  Most likely this will be DE through Grove City College bc, for now, that's his top choice school.  If Calc 1 goes well in the fall, we'll do Calc 2 in the Spring.

Engineering Graphics: Also DE through Grove City

English: I will put together an honors class using Succeeding at the AP Literature Exam, Movies as Literature and an advanced Lantern English writing class.  I won't use all of either of the first two sources.

Social Studies: Honors American Government using an AP US Gov't book the older two used and some other resources (icivics games and some primary sources)/ Economics-we will either use Notgrass OR I'll let him have say in designing his own

Foreign Language: He wants to drop Spanish and do Russian. Right now I'm thinking Mango Languages and some Youtube resources. 

Physics 2- Probably self studying using physics-prep.com.  He won't do the AP test as it won't count toward his degree.

PE--because he will have 1/2 credit to finish

ECs- TKD, NYLT (BSA leadership training) staff, FTC (robotics), youth group, personal assistant/yardwork for local lawyer

[MamaSprout]

7 hours ago, Roadrunner said:

Oh lord. Just typing on this thread gives me stomach cramps. I will have a senior next year! 😱

He needs biology, which he doesn’t want to learn.

And he needs US History, which he also doesn’t feel particularly crazy about.

He reads a ton and is lobbying to unschool all of English and history, but I am a rule following paranoid parent, so he will have no such luxury next year. 
So he will suffer through AP English Language, AP French (if I can find one), Biology (really hope for a dual enrollment here so I can avoid labs), US history (still debating to self study for AP, unschool, or throw him into a CC for this). What am I missing? Oh yes, math. He will have a year off from formal math, but will probably spend 20 hours on it every week anyway. 

And music, lots of music, always music… but that I continue to put under extracurriculars. 

You got this!

I vote for unschooling US History and maybe throwing in a Darby Kennedy short course? My dd was not excited about US History, but liked the course she took with Darby. Classes for ages 17, 18 containing "Darby Kennedy, MA". Upcoming classes first. | Outschool

Fingers crossed you get the DE Bio.

ETA (I know I don't get to vote... but definitely BTDT with US History)

Edited February 2, 2022 by MamaSprout

[ByGrace3]

I remember posting here when I was planning for dd's kindergarten year. . . and now we are planning her senior year. Woah. 

The only classes at home will be Bible and Piano. All the rest will be DE. Planning:

Fall:

DE Precalculus

Anatomy and Physiology 1 with lab 

Comp 2

Spring: 

Statistics

A&P 2

Chemistry 1 (maybe)

Music Appreciation 

[Roadrunner]

3 hours ago, MamaSprout said:

You got this!

I vote for unschooling US History and maybe throwing in a Darby Kennedy short course? My dd was not excited about US History, but liked the course she took with Darby. Classes for ages 17, 18 containing "Darby Kennedy, MA". Upcoming classes first. | Outschool

Fingers crossed you get the DE Bio.

ETA (I know I don't get to vote... but definitely BTDT with US History)

Thanks for the recommendation for US history!

[Eos]

Last homeschooler, last year!  Scary for me but not for her.  She plans to apply ED so that will be part of the fall schedule - I'd like her to get most of it done in August but we'll see.  She wants to be done with school by mid-year.

Three classes at the local LAC: math/physics, dance, and and English.  

Italian 3 with the program she's started now through Wellesley College. 

She might be starting to lean towards environmental science as a college goal, away from psychology, so that might also prompt a new class to be taken.  Same EC's: volunteer assistant handworks teacher, show choir, one-act drama, maybe another internship.

Edited April 1, 2022 by Eos

[RubyPenn]

If my school-hating child will cooperate, the tentative plan is:

Notgrass Government and Economics

Guest Hollow Biology or Anatomy and Physiology? (He hates science.)

Personal Finance

MP and Roman Roads for literature

Dual enrollment for composition? Rhetoric Alive Senior Thesis?

Music Theory and Songwriting

Otherwise, we are considering sending him to a private school for his last year, which doesn't fit with my plans, but I can only fight for so long.

 

[Roadrunner]

8 minutes ago, RubyPenn said:

If my school-hating child will cooperate, the tentative plan is:

Notgrass Government and Economics

Guest Hollow Biology or Anatomy and Physiology? (He hates science.)

Personal Finance

MP and Roman Roads for literature

Dual enrollment for composition? Rhetoric Alive Senior Thesis?

Music Theory and Songwriting

Otherwise, we are considering sending him to a private school for his last year, which doesn't fit with my plans, but I can only fight for so long.

 

We are considering this, although we aren’t sure how to work on form administrative perspective - do we provide home transcript for the first three years and school provides for just one year? Who graduates him?… headache. 

[ScoutTN]

@RubyPenn  I get it. My Ds is in school because homeschooling just didn’t work for him past elementary. He needed to be out in the world and with lots of people all day. Makes me sad in some ways, but he is happy and learning. One size does not fit all. 

Edited February 2, 2022 by ScoutTN

[MamaSprout]

@RubyPenn

@Roadrunner

We had additional reasons for dd to graduate early, but if I had to do a senior year next year with her, she would definitely be in this camp, too. This whole thread makes me both sad and relieved to not have another year.

[RubyPenn]

1 hour ago, Roadrunner said:

We are considering this, although we aren’t sure how to work on form administrative perspective - do we provide home transcript for the first three years and school provides for just one year? Who graduates him?… headache. 

I know.  I haven't called the school yet to find out.  It will be a huge headache because he has covered much of the literature they are doing next year and he hasn't done high school biology, which they do freshman year.  He doesn't want to go to school, but fights me over everything.

[RubyPenn]

42 minutes ago, MamaSprout said:

@RubyPenn

@Roadrunner

We had additional reasons for dd to graduate early, but if I had to do a senior year next year with her, she would definitely be in this camp, too. This whole thread makes me both sad and relieved to not have another year.

It makes me sad, too.  I am more irritated at the moment, though because I have tried to pick the best things that will work for him and he doesn't appreciate it.  He doesn't hate every single thing, but my goodness it has been a constant battle.

[MamaSprout]

1 hour ago, Roadrunner said:

We are considering this, although we aren’t sure how to work on form administrative perspective - do we provide home transcript for the first three years and school provides for just one year? Who graduates him?… headache. 

Does DE make sense for him? Our boys did all DE junior - senior year. It’s the only way things were workable.

Sorry meant @RubyPenn I know you have limited DE options @Roadrunner

Edited February 2, 2022 by MamaSprout

[RubyPenn]

5 minutes ago, MamaSprout said:

Does DE make sense for him? Our boys did all DE junior - senior year. It’s the only way things were workable.

I'm no so sure for my son.  He might get totally overwhelmed with all DE. At least he is open to the idea for some classes.  I would like him to take some CLEP tests.

 

[Roadrunner]

1 hour ago, MamaSprout said:

@RubyPenn

@Roadrunner

We had additional reasons for dd to graduate early, but if I had to do a senior year next year with her, she would definitely be in this camp, too. This whole thread makes me both sad and relieved to not have another year.

You did the right thing. I wish I had pushed for early graduation instead of being stuck another year home alone. It’s the social side that is completely unworkable here. 

[MamaSprout]

8 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

You did the right thing. I wish I had pushed for early graduation instead of being stuck another year home alone. It’s the social side that is completely unworkable here. 

Thank you.

The process of applying to college has made the year go better socially than it has in a long time. Dd did an early college experience last summer with her first pick school and the kids have been together on a discord server since camp. They went through the ups and downs of applying to colleges together. Now that acceptances have come in there are accepted student discord servers and zeemee groups for a little more social outlet. 

DE has been better this year, too. Dd's math professor does "office hours" at lunch on Fridays so dd can hang with junior/senior math kids without it being weird. He's new this year, so it was completely unexpected.

She also gets a lot of social vibes at work, even though most her friends there are adults.

Even so, knowing this is her last year has made a huge difference in her attitude towards everything.

 

[Roadrunner]

1 minute ago, MamaSprout said:

Thank you.

The process of applying to college has made the year go better socially than it has in a long time. Dd did an early college experience last summer with her first pick school and the kids have been together on a discord server since camp. They went through the ups and downs of applying to colleges together. Now that acceptances have come in there are accepted student discord servers and zeemee groups for a little more social outlet. 

DE has been better this year, too. Dd's math professor does "office hours" at lunch on Fridays so dd can hang with junior/senior math kids without it being weird. He's new this year, so it was completely unexpected.

She also gets a lot of social vibes at work, even though most her friends there are adults.

Even so, knowing this is her last year has made a huge difference in her attitude towards everything.

 

I am so happy for her.  

Here everything seems to be falling apart.
on top of it, DS just took a look at the amount of stupid personal writing required for college apps and is claiming he would rather work at CVS. 

[MamaSprout]

Just now, Roadrunner said:

I am so happy for her.  

Here everything seems to be falling apart.
on top of it, DS just took a look at the amount of stupid personal writing required for college apps and is claiming he would rather work at CVS. 

Yeaaaahhh. That's why we only applied to four (with two of them being minimally more than the standard Common App stuff). We also did the PA Homeschoolers summer intensive to get the big essay out of the way.

It doesn't help that he doesn't have a clear first pick. I think it's easier if they can picture themselves somewhere. 

My husband jokes that a summer working in a plastic bucket factory did wonders for his attitude towards going to college. And hey- working at CVS would at least be social? 

[RubyPenn]

37 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

Here everything seems to be falling apart.
on top of it, DS just took a look at the amount of stupid personal writing required for college apps and is claiming he would rather work at CVS. 

Sounds familiar.  Mine is working at the national homeschooled child employer, Chik Fil A, and hates it, yet still says he doesn't want to go to college. He just wants to be in a band. 😩

[Arcadia]

41 minutes ago, MamaSprout said:

And hey- working at CVS would at least be social? 

Here the CVS stores are rather quiet. We often are the only customers there when we go in. The pharmacy counter though would have some social interactions. Target customer service counter would have more social interactions than CVS. A friend’s child worked as a Target cashier during her summer holidays. 

[MamaSprout]

11 minutes ago, RubyPenn said:

Sounds familiar.  Mine is working at the national homeschooled child employer, Chik Fil A, and hates it, yet still says he doesn't want to go to college. He just wants to be in a band. 😩

Okay, I think you are right about Chik Fil A, lol.

This school is connected with Sweetwater recording and has Music Industry and Music Technology degrees: https://www.pfw.edu/academics-research/majors-minors?program_type=37&format=11&college_school=9411&program_attribute=All

Not the same as being in a band, but might be worth a look? 

[RubyPenn]

16 minutes ago, MamaSprout said:

Okay, I think you are right about Chik Fil A, lol.

This school is connected with Sweetwater recording and has Music Industry and Music Technology degrees: https://www.pfw.edu/academics-research/majors-minors?program_type=37&format=11&college_school=9411&program_attribute=All

Not the same as being in a band, but might be worth a look? 

Thank you so much! I will definitely take a look.

[Roadrunner]

45 minutes ago, RubyPenn said:

Sounds familiar.  Mine is working at the national homeschooled child employer, Chik Fil A, and hates it, yet still says he doesn't want to go to college. He just wants to be in a band. 😩

Maybe we can form a band at CVS? 🤣

[RubyPenn]

42 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

Maybe we can form a band at CVS? 🤣

Yes!  As long as they stay far away from the pharmacy.

[rzberrymom]

I think I registered on this site when my kiddo was 5-years old, and now we’re already at senior year. Unbelievable to me.

We do everything DE, and fall will be either Calculus 3 or statistics, physics, music theory and *maybe* a biochemistry class. She’s also in 2 choirs. And she’ll be a TA/embedded tutor for organic chemistry. The professor is excited about that one—the students usually graduate after they finish Ochem so she never has an available TA. My DD told her she just needs to use the homeschooled DE kids!

Her plan for now is to graduate a semester early and travel, but I guess that depends on whether things get back to normal by then!

[theelfqueen]

DS will be reclassified as a. 11th grader to take advantage of 2 full years of community college through a local program and seeking an AAS in Comp Sci. And some certs.... after that either attendance at the State U or seeking a job that will eventually pay for BS at State U using existing certs. I think. 

Edited February 3, 2022 by theelfqueen

[Lilaclady]

I have a senior next year!!! Where has the time gone!!!

Dual enrolling all the way. She only need US and world history and she will be taking them as DE to get college credits. One of the colleges won’t accept online US history class so has to be in person. Wants to work and do an internship too so should be fun. 

[Nam2001]

I can’t believe I’ll have a senior 😢

Classics of Christendom history - Schole Academy 

Rhetoric (with Lit)-  Integritas/Cindy Lange

Intro to Illustration - Schole Academy 

Math - PreCal- not sure what 

Bible - home

Maybe a study of world religions at home 

[bluemongoose]

DD
 

Math: AOPS Calculus-taking AP test 

Science: AP Physics C using the Knight book

English: IEW Writing the Research Paper and Lit selections from WTM

History: Ancient History to Fall of Rome. Using the Ancient History book by SWB as the spine

French 2 with Breaking the French Barrier. She did 2 years of Spanish first and then switched to French

Music: Viola and Piano

Elective: Animal Science (think husbandry like AG classes, she has already done AP Bio) Her request. I am not sure how to title that on her transcript though. 
 

[mlktwins]

First and last senior year for me x 2 boys 😬

DS1:

Math:  AP Stats with PAHomeschoolers (and @NittanyJen) .

LA:  American Lit (possibly done at home). Have ordered LLATL Gold - Literary Criticism to look at.  The company offers grading of 4 essays for $50 so may do that.  We will see on this one.  No specific writing class planned at this point.  They took a full credit of Lantern English writing this year. 

Science:  Anatomy & Physiology at Blue Tent

Foreign Language:  Spanish 4 (will have the same teacher all 4 years at local co-op).

History:  DE - US History Since 1865

Elective:  Probably a 1 credit DE Nutrition or Exercise Science class for spring semester.

Elective:  Probably a fine arts .5 or 1 credit - film appreciation.

DS2:

Math:  AP Stats with PAHomeschoolers (and @NittanyJen) .

LA:  American Lit (possibly done at home). Have ordered LLATL Gold - Literary Criticism to look at.  The company offers grading of 4 essays for $50 so may do that.  We will see on this one.  No specific writing class planned at this point.  They took a full credit of Lantern English writing this year. 

Science:  Anatomy & Physiology at Blue Tent

Foreign Language:  Spanish 4 (will have the same teacher all 4 years at local co-op).

History:  DE - US History Since 1865

Elective:  DO AP Calc AB without test

Elective:  Probably a fine arts .5 or 1 credit - film appreciation.

Elective:  Possibly another class DE for spring semester.  Will see what he wants to do.

This summer:  2 workshops scheduled with PAHomeschoolers for common app and short answer essays.  Finish economics and take Lantern English Advanced Research Paper (doing a topic on economics). Continue college research and college visits.  Prep for August SAT - hopefully their last time.

Extracurriculars:  Continue year round swim and summer swim team (also coaching).  Continue volunteering for the library.  Continue homeschool honor society.  

 

Edited May 4, 2022 by mlktwins
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[UmmIbrahim]

On 3/25/2022 at 9:46 AM, mlktwins said:

 

This summer:  2 workshops scheduled with PAHomeschoolers for common app and short answer essays.  Finish economics and do personal finance (required by my state). 

 

Hey, it looks like you have a good plan for next year. Just throwing it out there that if you are graduating your kids from your homeschool (which I am pretty sure you are), our state does NOT require that list of courses you are referring to (personal finance, 4 English credits, 3 math credits, yadda yadda) to be completed by homeschoolers. It is explicitly for students in public or private schools as a graduation requirement.

Given, you will surely be more than meeting the English, math, etc. credits, but you don't have to spend time on personal finance if your kids aren't into it and you don't want to! My oldest son didn't have an official credit for that option (we covered financial literacy through general family discussions/practical matters and not as an official class on the transcript), and he graduated just fine and his transcript was accepted everywhere we applied, both in-state and out-of-state schools.

The state law that pertains to homeschoolers does not have an explicit list of classes. More power to you if your kids really want to tick that box like public schoolers, but it seems like you might be squeezing it in the summer because you feel you have to, so just throwing it out there that you don't!

Good luck with your planning.

[mlktwins]

15 hours ago, UmmIbrahim said:

Hey, it looks like you have a good plan for next year. Just throwing it out there that if you are graduating your kids from your homeschool (which I am pretty sure you are), our state does NOT require that list of courses you are referring to (personal finance, 4 English credits, 3 math credits, yadda yadda) to be completed by homeschoolers. It is explicitly for students in public or private schools as a graduation requirement.

Oh my goodness, thank you!  Since the boys were in 8th grade and I was researching high school requirements, I believed VA didn't have specific course requirements for homeschoolers.  I went to double check myself a couple of weeks ago, and I totally misread something.  so no, they don't need a specific personal finance class.  We have a lot of discussions at home.

Thank you for saving me the trouble!!!

[Eos]

On 2/2/2022 at 6:35 PM, RubyPenn said:

It makes me sad, too.  I am more irritated at the moment, though because I have tried to pick the best things that will work for him and he doesn't appreciate it.  He doesn't hate every single thing, but my goodness it has been a constant battle.

I remember asking a  homeschooling mom friend when her first went off to college before my first: "do you miss him?"  She paused, then said carefully "I don't miss him hating me." 🙂 

[freesia]

Just now, Eos said:

I remember asking a  homeschooling mom friend when her first went off to college before my first: "do you miss him?"  She paused, then said carefully "I don't miss him hating me." 🙂 

I think it's all part of the separation process.  Each of mine who've gone, I've been ready for them to go not necessarily bc I felt they hated me but bc of the way if felt to be constantly pushed away.  Ds 16, a junior, is doing it now and the irritation makes me think sometimes--I just wish he could go now!  They become ready to fly and think we are standing in their way.  And both college kids texted me all the time!  So, I know they just needed that space.

[ScoutTN]

WHA cancelled the M/W section of AP Stats and my Dd has conflicts for a T/Th schedule. 

So I am scrambling to figure out a good option. No live online providers have a M/W class, at least that I have found so far. Dd detests asynchronous and cannot do that. 

DE at cc is possible, but not a fabulous option. Free, but teaching quality is unknown. 

I hate this for Dd. She was really looking forward to having Eric Reini for that class. WHA has been a fabulous fit for her high school math until this.
 

 

[mlktwins]

1 minute ago, ScoutTN said:

WHA cancelled the M/W section of AP Stats and my Dd has conflicts for a T/Th schedule. 

So I am scrambling to figure out a good option. No live online providers have a M/W class, at least that I have found so far. Dd detests asynchronous and cannot do that. 

DE at cc is possible, but not a fabulous option. Free, but teaching quality is unknown. 

I hate this for Dd. She was really looking forward to having Eric Reini for that class. WHA has been a fabulous fit for her high school math until this.
 

 

We are signed up for PAHomeschoolers AP stats with @NittanyJen.  I think the class is going to be fabulous and she is super helpful with questions.

[ScoutTN]

14 minutes ago, mlktwins said:

We are signed up for PAHomeschoolers AP stats with @NittanyJen.  I think the class is going to be fabulous and she is super helpful with questions.

It’s T/Th at a time we cannot do. That was the first place I checked!

PAH, Blue Tent, HSML are all T/Th mid morning or later, which Dd cannot do. 
 

 

Edited April 4, 2022 by ScoutTN

[mlktwins]

10 minutes ago, ScoutTN said:

It’s T/Th at a time we cannot do. That was the first place I checked!

PAH, Blue Tent, HSML are all T/Th mid morning or later, which Dd cannot do. 
 

 

We cannot either at that time.  My boys have swim practice everyday at 3:30.  The live class will be recorded and my boys will watch that way.  She is super available with office hours and email.  My boys are used to asynchronous though with Derek Owens this year.  I would message her and ask some questions.

[ScoutTN]

5 hours ago, mlktwins said:

We cannot either at that time.  My boys have swim practice everyday at 3:30.  The live class will be recorded and my boys will watch that way.  She is super available with office hours and email.  My boys are used to asynchronous though with Derek Owens this year.  I would message her and ask some questions.

Asynchronous will not work for her. BUT I moved something else (which I had thought unmovable, but someone had mercy on me) and now Dd will be able to do the T/TH section at WHA.

Which creates a conflict for scheduling AP Music Theory....but that is local and easier to resolve. I hope.

[mmasc]

I cannot believe I’m posting on this thread. I really just can’t believe my firstborn is going to be a senior! Eeek!

I haven’t gotten much figured out yet, but I’ve got a couple of for-sure things. 

Math—Derek Owens Pre-Calculus. DS tried DO for the first time this year (Alg 2) and it has been an awesome fit. So no way are we messing with this!

Maaaaybe DE through a CC online for English. It will be his first DE class if we do it, so currently trying to gauge if it’ll be a good fit. I don’t want him to get in too deep, too fast and make a poor grade, but English seems like something he could handle. 

Maaaaaybe another online DE class that presents as an easy-ish, general ed elective kind of class. (Art Appreciation? Humanities?)

MasterBooks Archaeology. We bought it this year for 11th as an elective and never did get to it.😳 So it’ll be for next year now I guess. 

And that’s all I’ve got. I need to figure out some stuff still!

eta: And I have no idea for science. He has gotten in all of his main science  courses with labs (biology, chemistry, physics), so what now? I guess whatever he wants, but he’s not super interested in anything, so who knows. 

Edited April 5, 2022 by mmasc
Science

[RubyPenn]

On 4/1/2022 at 3:15 PM, freesia said:

I think it's all part of the separation process.  Each of mine who've gone, I've been ready for them to go not necessarily bc I felt they hated me but bc of the way if felt to be constantly pushed away.  Ds 16, a junior, is doing it now and the irritation makes me think sometimes--I just wish he could go now!  They become ready to fly and think we are standing in their way.  And both college kids texted me all the time!  So, I know they just needed that space.

This is good for me to hear.  My son is almost 17 and his irritation with me is increasing. He tells us he wants to move out at 18, which hurts to hear.  He insists he doesn't want to go to college, but has no viable plan for his future.  I am really not looking forward to the battles I foresee next year.  I know maturity will come, but this is a hard phase to go through.

[freesia]

1 hour ago, RubyPenn said:

This is good for me to hear.  My son is almost 17 and his irritation with me is increasing. He tells us he wants to move out at 18, which hurts to hear.  He insists he doesn't want to go to college, but has no viable plan for his future.  I am really not looking forward to the battles I foresee next year.  I know maturity will come, but this is a hard phase to go through.

Yes, it is hard. For encouragement, my dd19 told us before she left for college not to expect her to text too often. Well, she texted daily her first semester, almost daily now and initiates FaceTime weekly. You never know. My present ds16 has also said he can’t wait to move out. I mean, it’s worth evaluating the vibe if your family and home for tension, anger or other reasons they are not thriving their. But if you just have a normally imperfect family that generally laughs and enjoys one another and you aren’t too controlling or anything, it’s best to see this as normal development. You want them to look forward to the next step. 

[Miss Tick]

This has to be the latest I have ever planned out the next year. Every year I feel like I'm keeping more and more plates spinning.

History: At home the three of us will be doing a 0.5 credit Current Events class to finish out our third cycle through world history. I'm planning to have them listen to a student-oriented newscast in their foreign language of choice. Then we will discuss topics and I want them to write short papers ( in English), probably monthly, to flesh out one topic. Maybe I'll suggest a list of topoi like historical underpinnings, biographical summary, parallels in history, etc.

DS -

Math: AP Calc @ DO

Science: AP Chem @ PAH

Foreign Languange: German III @ WTMA

English: Advanced Senior English @ Blue Tent

Elective: Object Oriented Programming and C Programming (both self-studied), High School Lit Club 0.5 credits (I probably need a better title, this is how I am thinking of it.)

DD -

Math: AP Stats @ Blue Tent

Science: Algebra based Physics @ Clover Creek (originally I signed up my younger dd, but plans changed)

Foreign Languange: French IV @ WTMA

English: AP English Lit @ Blue Tent

Elective: Film as Art, Film as Lit together at home, plus a Creative Writing class in the spring

Now I need to get summer plans in order......

[ScoutTN]

Well, we arranged Dd’s entire year around a local AP Music Theory class - which is now not happening. So frustrating!!

PAH has room and the instructor seems very good, but Dd will dislike the asynchronous online aspect. Not a format in which she thrives.

Checking in to the DE possibilities. DE is free here -free is good! Also courses in vocal music there interest Dd. Waiting to hear back from the professor. Much more complicated than PAH to sign up for, plus transportation/logistics issues. But I think Dd would like being on a college campus and feeling more independent.