It may seem odd that I have chosen to use a public school program to help homeschool my kids. I have always been against public school at home, so I guess I should make a statement about this.
First,. because we could not get dual enrollment for my son's senior year, I wanted something to show to colleges that he was at the same level as high school kids.
Second, while Georgia Virtual School is sponsored by the state, it keeps the parent in control of what the child will take and even gives flexibility in scheduling.
Third, it is not Georgia Cyber Academy, in which the school makes all educational choices for the child. I strongly dislike Georgia Cyber Academy because kids who are struggling in school, would almost never be successful in it.
Anyway, we chose to take a couple of online classes this year through Georgia Virtual School. My son is taking Physics, Spanish, and a math class. As I am not equipped to teach the spanish or physics, I had to find something, and this is free... more money for college. My daughter is taking Mandarin Chinese... there is no way I can help her with that.... for this reason, I am finding individual classes at Georgia Virtual School quite useful for my needs.
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Update: Didn't have an awesome experience with Georgia Virtual School. I only recommend if your kids can follow a typical school schedule... which sucks all of the fun out of homeschooling.
First,. because we could not get dual enrollment for my son's senior year, I wanted something to show to colleges that he was at the same level as high school kids.
Second, while Georgia Virtual School is sponsored by the state, it keeps the parent in control of what the child will take and even gives flexibility in scheduling.
Third, it is not Georgia Cyber Academy, in which the school makes all educational choices for the child. I strongly dislike Georgia Cyber Academy because kids who are struggling in school, would almost never be successful in it.
Anyway, we chose to take a couple of online classes this year through Georgia Virtual School. My son is taking Physics, Spanish, and a math class. As I am not equipped to teach the spanish or physics, I had to find something, and this is free... more money for college. My daughter is taking Mandarin Chinese... there is no way I can help her with that.... for this reason, I am finding individual classes at Georgia Virtual School quite useful for my needs.
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Update: Didn't have an awesome experience with Georgia Virtual School. I only recommend if your kids can follow a typical school schedule... which sucks all of the fun out of homeschooling.
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By the way, we are using Georgia Cyber Academy and I know MANY people who have children who were struggling in brick and mortar schools who are having success with GCA. I can connect you with some if you would like.
I also have looked into my college options and GCA is a great home school to help me get into college. I plan on going to school to be an anesthesiologist and so far I'm good enough to go to any college I want.
I think its easy to say that I prefer Georgia Cyber Academy over Georgia Virtual School.
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We've also tried Georgia K-12, and found no two people there know what the others are doing, or have the same information. They repeatedly loose application parts we fax ( and which we have proof were accepted by their fax machine). They also say they can't accomodate anything unusual ( my dd was homeschooled all but last year, and also missed half a year of school due to illness - that completely threw them and they denied her application), and when I said the sales staff ensure me they can deal with this, I'm told their own sales staff doesn't know what they're talking about. Oh, and they're not MAC compatible but don't know it, and don't know if their student site is. How could you not know that?
I'll try GCA next, and let you know how it goes
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