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 This is interesting Georgia wants to overhaul its high school curriculum, making it more like college with courses tailored to what students want to do after they graduate. # Under the proposed plan, students would choose a "career cluster" that would lead them through the classes they need to either go on to a two-year or four-year college or to go straight into a job. The plan — which is expected to be taken up by the state Board of Education sometime this fall — would unravel the single-track approach instituted by former state schools Superintendent Kathy Cox that assumed every student was going to college.  Read more here: http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2011/sep/18/ga-wants-make-high-school-more-college/ I find this interesting because GA has changed it's high school curriculum just a few years ago, making high school so stringent that students not aiming for college would have no choice but to drop out.  I was wondering how long it would take to...

Every other Friday night when assignments are due, I find myself cyber stalking my kids accounts to make sure their courses are entered.  If they are late, they will lose 10 points a day. Daughter forgot one test completely, so I sent her to do it.  When she was done, the score had not calculated, when it finally did she had a low grade.  Fortunately, it was just one of several quizzes this week.  My problem is that we could not access the site for a couple of hours today, so I don't know if the site was still having problems, or if she did not know the material.  I have been on the internet for enough years to know how software glitches work. (I made a note in her notebook about the site being down, just so that when final grades are issued, I can compare my notes to her grades to see if there is a pattern.  If there is, I will adjust accordingly.) Speaking of the site being down for a couple of hours, my son announced that all of his work was comple...

Georgia Cyber Academy was profiled on the local news. http://www.11alive.com/news/article/205836/3/Going-to-a-virtual-charter-school  That's all find and Dandy.  It is working for a lot of kids, although I also hear from a lot of kids it does not work for.   But, if it rocks your boat, go for it. But.... Please don't call it homeschooling. If public school at home, and homeschooling  becomes synonymous, people who want to homeschool without the governments help will lose their rights. Ok... so I need to add a disclaimer here. My kids are using Georgia Virtual School, which is individual classes provided online to all kids in the state, should they want to partake. It walks the line between homeschool and public school.  It is taught by public school teachers and paid for by the state, but the parent remains in charge of what the kids take. (I dare say that if we don't agree with a grade, we could technically re-evaluate the kid and assi...