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I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - namwen - 07-15-2013
With all of the success that my 18 year old son has had this year while at home, I had to give my 14 year old a run at it too. He has been doing great this summer taking some dual enrollment courses.
So far since December my 18 year old has accumulated 45 hours through NMJC, SL and PF combined. If he pushes he will graduate with an AS in Biology in December. He has enough credits to graduate high school now but we are holding off. I am thinking about using the AS as motivatin to keep him going towards his AS. Finish the AS and you have graduated HS. This kid, who just had his 18th birthday has totally impressed me. I am so proud. He has gone from an average HS student to a wonderful college/homeschooler.
My 14 year old has finished Intro to Biz, Principals of Management and Art Appreciation this summer. I ordered his study books for Hears to Your Health, English Comp and Hist I & I. He will be taking Geometry, Biology and Writing through a homeschool co-op and Social Science and electives at home with me.
My 12 year old will be taking Pre-Algebra, Physical Science and writing through co-op and the same at home as my 14 year old at a lower level.
My 10 year old daughter is getting a plan worked on for here in the next few weeks.
My 8 year old daughter will continue in public school.
My 21 year old son is pipeline welding making waaaaaay to much only right now, lol.
These kids are making me a proud daddy.
We are so excited for the new educational direction that our kids are heading towards. We finally cut the cord and withdrew them from private school and I resigned from my position as the head football coach/athletic directing duties. This will save us lots of money this year and countless hours of work. Plenty of time to work on my business and education.
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - rebel100 - 07-15-2013
Good to hear, homeschooling really opens up the possibilities!
Am I to understand your 14 year old is at NMJC? If so, I'd like to hear about that!
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - mrs.b - 07-15-2013
Namwen, that is great news! We just withdrew our son from public school in May and have been homeschooling as well. I administered the Stanford standardized test to get an idea of where we were starting - he's special needs and we had a strong suspicion of "soft grading", i.e., giving As and Bs rather than teaching so he could learn and earn them - and were a bit disheartened when I got the report and he tested at the 2nd grade level on everything but Vocabulary (6th grade there!), when he's entering 4th grade now. After a few deep breaths and a regroup of how to approach home lessons, a new game plan has us backing up and doing a full review of 2nd and 3rd grade materials.
Proving that he is entirely capable if taught "his" way, he already finished the 2nd grade review and is almost done with 3rd grade review. It sounds trivial, but it almost brings tears of joy to my eyes when I ask him a question and he's able to answer, rather than immediately become frustrated and shut down. When he was in school, we would ask how his day went and he could rarely tell me what subjects they touched on, much less what was taught in them. Since we started, though, he spent about half an hour at this weekend's family get-together instructing his granddad about kinetic versus potential energy, and defining nouns and how to tell if one is concrete or abstract, proper or common, etc. He was so proud, and I was too!
These kids can run when given the right road, and it's made a believer out of me that only parents can truly help find the paving that best-suits their styles, when just a few months ago I wasn't sure I'd have the beginning of a clue how to teach him.
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - rebel100 - 07-15-2013
mrs.b Wrote:These kids can run when given the right road, and it's made a believer out of me that only parents can truly help find the paving that best-suits their styles, when just a few months ago I wasn't sure I'd have the beginning of a clue how to teach him.
Convert....
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - namwen - 07-15-2013
Congrats Mrs. b! You are now fully in control of your child's progress! Small victories can be huge!
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - namwen - 07-15-2013
I told my wife today that we can now move into a mud hut in the country, make our own soap, make our own clothes out of hemp, live off of the foood that we grow...you know, embrace this whole homeschool thing. She didn't think it was funny.
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - namwen - 07-15-2013
No offense to those that do that stuff. :p
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - quasarvs - 07-15-2013
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I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - cookderosa - 07-15-2013
you should be so super incredibly proud. You can lead a kid to CLEP, but you can't make them pass. I applaud all you're doing, I know first hand how hard it is, and how much work it is to do a good job. (hell, it's a lot of work to do just an average job). WAY TO GO, you're an awesome dad!!!
I did it...full time homeschoolers now! - cookderosa - 07-15-2013
namwen Wrote:I told my wife today that we can now move into a mud hut in the country, make our own soap, make our own clothes out of hemp, live off of the foood that we grow...you know, embrace this whole homeschool thing. She didn't think it was funny.
It's completely required. Of course, you don't ACTUALLY have to do those things, just be sure to SAY them...you have a stereotype to live up to now.
You might want to start looking into 15 passenger vans and high-waters.