What curriculum are you using, or what are you doing? I was going to use Oak Meadow for my soon-to-be 9th grader, but found out they are no longer offering portfolio support, and we cannot afford full teacher support.

I need help!!!!!

We are using James Madison High School. there is also American School. We used it last yr. It was OK, but not academic enough IMHO to be very competitive to impress some of the harder to get into colleges. Would have stuck with it, but DS really wants to get into University of GA.

DD will be 9th grade next year. We are still using a mix of things.

Lets see:
Math & English are Abeka
Science is Apolgia Biology
Geography is Around the World in 180 days
Reading/Lit is WTM guidelines
Spanish is 2nd /12 powerglide
Latin is Latina Christina 2
Health is SOS Healthquest
Art is Life Pacs

I think that is pretty much it, we will be still going thru some modern history that we didn't finish up this year w/ Kingfisher,. reading, etc...

If you are looking for a program w/ Teacher support there is NARS, K12, Keystone, Abeka Academy, American School. I am sure there are a few more as well. I know Texas Tech and UT both offer a distance based charter program, I dont' know if out non-Texas folks can use then? There may be similiar programs in your state as well.

Also I know here you can take classes at local colleges at 13, so that may be a option as well.

dawn

There is also...http://nebraskahs.unl.edu/ I used some of their courses when i was in highschool and loved it. It is what we plan to use for our children.

Thanks for all the info everyone! Keep it comin' if you have more. :)

We homeschool highschool.

We use Well-Trained Mind, Saxon higher math, Apologia, Wheelock's Latin with the online study group, local high school for Spanish.

In the junior year, in our state (WA) students can get free tuition at local colleges, up to 15 credit hours. Wasn't going to do that, but our son decided that's what he wanted. So this year he's taking Calculus, Chemistry w lab, and a lit course at college, Spanish at local high school, and homeschools history, philosophy, and just finished up the online Latin course.

Next year he'll do the same, but with Physics and . . . uhmmm, whatever comes after Calculus :lol: .

Not right now, but I'm homeschooled my stepdaughter from 7-12, except when she went to hs for 9th grade (and was immediately elected president of her class--so much for concerns about socialization!). Starting soon before she was 14, she began taking college classes. At first, she took one at a time, but by the time she was 16, she was either taking two "hard" classes or three or four "easy" classes each semester. When she was almost eighteen, she went away to Eastern Michigan Unversity on an honors scholarship. She graduated with a major and minor, with honors, right after she turned twenty.

Oh, that was just proud mama talk. The answer to your question is other than the college classes and reading the reading list (from Beowulf to the present) for the Masters in English program I was working on at the time with me, she unschooled. We did do math from the texts she would have been using at school, until she started college maths. She did lots of volunteer work, field trips, etc.

This was, of course, before I became the curriculum addict I now am.

Hana