I decided to pull my child out of public schools - need help picking an online curric

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Sorry, I've been homeschooling my kids for 9 years now, and have never used an online curriculum for all of our courses. We are big on video-based teaching (VideoText Algebra, Institute for Excellence in Writing) or online courses for a single course (Memoria Press' First Form Latin). I have never done a "single source" curriculum, but rather picked and chose based on the best available products I found each year. I think one of the things I was trying to get away from all these years is a one-size-fits-all mentality of public schools, so I've tried specifically NOT to choose in this way! I just can't imagine thinking that a single company will be good at teaching all of the things my kid needs. But maybe I'm just a rebel!

If a homeschool conference is coming your way this summer, I highly recommend going to one. I've gone almost every year for the last 9 years, and always come away with something new. I've been to regional ones for my state, but I've also been to the Great Homeschool Conventions one here in Southern CA. It's pretty big, but it's certainly not as big as the one they have each year in Cincinnati, where 10,000+ people show up every year. I think they have one in the south each year as well, although I don't think it's in the summer. Anyway, search out homeschool conferences in your area and go to at least one.

My 9th grade daughter is going to a charter high school this coming fall, as she wants to play sports. So my son is going to do 7th grade (mostly) through Freedom Project Education this year. All online courses, we are doing Apologia General Science, History, English & Logic. I like that they are christian, classical, and non common-core. I will continue the math that we are currently doing, since he's doing well. He will also add German (because it sounds angry is his reason for taking it!), also online, through Middlebury Interactive.

As for accreditation, I didn't even know that was an issue or option. Like I've said, I've been doing it for 9 years, and have been to at least 10 homeschool conferences, and that never even came up. I've never heard a question asked about that. But maybe because I don't really care? Not sure.

Good luck.

I don't recall saying this was my only source. I've also joined a classical literature group, my church's Homeschool Group which has a plethora of resources, and of course there is still ixl.com, study.com, easy peasy homeschool, rainbow resource, Keystone School, Ambleside online, time for learning, etcetera etcetera.

I may be new to this but I do my research and I have a lot of homeschool friends and colleagues who have been homeschooling for decades. I am simply looking for opinions about anyone who has used any of the online platforms. I'm not looking for judgment. Why did you put "single source" in quotation marks. That certainly wasn't a direct quote from me.

Tone does not convey well over the internet but I must say the introduction to that very long paragraph seems like it was full of judgmental and inaccurate assumptions.

The latter part of your message however, I appreciate.