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Homeschooling Blog (Archive)
December 1, 2003
posted by Carol at
6:45 AM (Pacific)
Yipes!
Its been forever since I've updated. Forgive me?
Boy#1 is almost done with 8th grade. We took some time and looked around online together to try and find a suitable high school program for him. We all agree that he needs something other than just textbooks. He likes the idea of video school and I agree. So far the only curriculum I can find in that format is Abeka. Price and content are both major concerns for me. Its spendy aprox. $1000. Now, thats dirtcheap compared to sending him to a private school. We checked that and its $7,000-$9,000 per year for high school. Content, well, what can i say? Its christian. Not that he (my son) nor I have a huge problem with that, its just that all he wants to do is take the necessary courses needed to complete high school so he can get into college. He doesn't want or need alot of preaching done at him. He told me, "Its not that I mind the bible stuff, mom, it just gets really annoying after awhile."
What I/we need to do is check out some of the secular correspondence programs that are out there for high school homeschoolers. I know there are several. IU (Indiana University) has a high school correspondence program. That would be very, very cool. Its REALLY expensive though. I dunno. I want to have everything decided and ready to go by Feb. or March.
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