I am trying to figure out high school. To date, all the credits my children have are on official records. But I am considering veering off from this to focus on the areas that I personally consider important. And also, to flatter a style that I consider more successful. As of the end of this school year, DD will have 5-6 credits and DS will have 9-10 credits. All this is on official transcripts. So I could continue this route. I could switch to an accredited program that does not expect a lot to leave room for us to do more of our own thing, or I could just quit the whole accredited route and do my own thing. In which case, I figure 18 yrs old would be a good time to declare someone graduated unless there is a need to do so earlier.
When to graduate the children, diplomas? etc?
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Jackie
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I personally will not switch to an acredited program. You've done on your own so far; why switch when it would force you to be less flexible? What are they interested in? Can you fashion something along those lines? My problem is that when I try to discuss this with Rachael, she really can't give me any direction.
It is true. We have done so well on our own. Then we go with an accredited program. It is ok. We move through it quickly. But, I have ideas on how I like to do things. I like to spend extra time and emphasis on things that I consider important and/or things that we have difficulty with. I think math is very important for my children. My son wants to move toward a career in computers and maybe graphic design so I would like to continue with art classes at the art house and allowing him to continue to study computer on his own and the programming he has been doing (can't tell you exactly what he has been doing, but every so often, he sends me a program he wrote). My daughter is really in to music and just picked up a second instrument and I would like her to have more time on that. Both of my children love museums and documentaries. I found, to my surprise, that as my children have worked through 9th grade biology, they already know the stuff. They tell me they saw it on this show or read it in that book. Based on the college level chemistry and physics books they have on their shelves (they have their own shelves in their rooms with books they have been reading), I am thinking that it will be the same redundancy with the high school level chem and physics. However, they are just sailing through the 9th grade biology and will simply finish early.
pretty much. They are in an accredited program now, but were not before this year. But they are sailing through so fast that they will finish high school by 16. But, they won't have things I consider important and they will continue to spend time on things I don't consider important because they already know it or don't need to know it, or it is something I was teaching just fine on my own.
Only thing is, they get a diploma from an accredited school. Now...exactly...how much does that account for? I live in Texas and am shocked at how many public schools are not accredited.
Lindina
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Accredited or non-accredited, no big deal. "IF" (when) they're going to college, the college isn't really going to care HOW they got an education as much as they care about HOW MUCH education they got. You can make them a transcript yourself. Their college apps and entrance exams will do most of the talking for them, and your transcript will fill in the rest.
Emma's#1fan
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Lindina took the words out of my mouth.LOL