Not Another Homeschool Blog

I am finding that in my area, several families are being hit up for money because their students needed to take extra classes to be able to graduate. I thought it was an isolated incident until I started asking the question "is your senior ready to graduate?". I keep hearing no. The good news, is that there are ways to make sure your child graduates on time. There are local online and private schools from which the public school MUST accept credit. If you find yourself in this position, check out http://highschool.unl.edu/ and http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/highschool.cfm If you can't get anywhere with the school's guidance counselors, then go to the board of education. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor Brighthub Contributor

As I have mentioned a gazillion times recently, my son is taking classes for his Senior year with Georgia Virtual School. He has done orientation several times and there was some kind of glitch with the software. According to the online support team, his orientation shows he finished it this morning. (Though it was his fourth or fifth time doing it.) He can access his classes tomorrow, a day late. My problem is that it seemed that they didn't want to acknowledge that there was a software problem. It had to be due to him making a mistake. Meanwhile this kid really knows his way around a computer. Here's hoping he can get into his classes tomorrow as assignments are due every Friday night at midnight. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor Brighthub Contributor

I am now allowed monitization with YouTube so there will be a lot more videos. I just realized that I used to preach about using public school resources for homeschooling, but we are now using them. Never say never huh? I do feel comfortable with using individual classes with Georgia Virtual School because it is not an online school, but online classes, so that parent still controls the students schedule and is responsible as their "principal". FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor Brighthub Contributor

Let's just say I was none too happy when I saw the following email in my inbox... here's an excert: "Racist Homeschoolers Unite"? Don't answer a fool according to his folly… that's our position and we'll continue to ignore the asinine assertions of racism being at the root of those who are displeased with the policies of the current administration. In the meantime, we're ready to start examining some of the GOP presidential candidates who may be able to turn the tide of the current political mess. The next president will be in a position to mold and shape the future America our children will inherit. ... I am cringing at the thought of the next election. The last one was traumatic enough for me. You see, I have always been a person whose race did not seem to matter. Even the most racist of people seemed to like me and would tell me so. You know the old back-handed compliment "You're not like those other black people." Yes, that...

As I have mentioned before the children erm, young adults are taking online classes with the public school teacher.  The Senior is taking 2 classes and the Junior is taking 1. We received emails from all teachers today introducing themselves and letting us know when the weekly "chat" session would be.  Well, the session for my daughters Spanish  class is the same time as her drama club meetings. I emailed to the teacher to speak to him about the conflict.  However, as the teacher left his phone number I decided to try and call him.  He answered and was very nice.  He said just listen to the recordings of the weekly chats and and call him if she has any problems. So far I am very happy with the level of communication.  That is usually my biggest pet peeve, so... so far-so good. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE  ' WalletPop Contributor Brighthub Contributor