tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post102975256615975463..comments2023-05-07T02:50:54.812-06:00Comments on Marcy's Musings: Homeschooling High School?Marcy Muserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17787308098682419608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post-89244119425915168992007-09-25T17:38:00.000-06:002007-09-25T17:38:00.000-06:00Melinda,You could be right. I know Sweet Pea has ...Melinda,<BR/><BR/>You could be right. I know Sweet Pea has an 8th-grade friend on the swim team who is taking Algebra I for the second time this year - because that's the most advanced math class the middle school offers. Even though she took it and passed it last year, she has to take it again!<BR/><BR/>Our middle school has one band per grade - 6th, 7th, 8th. Don't know, though, whether they'd let a sixth-grade-age kid into the eighth-grade band.<BR/><BR/>As for high school, I don't know. We have a fairly flexible system here, because Colorado has school choice, but I don't know if that would extend to a middle-school student going to high school. There's more flexibility for gifted students these days, too; kids are allowed to attend college their last two years of high school, paid for by the school district. And there's no money issue involved, as there is at the kindergarten level, since all students after first grade are paid on an all-day basis. I'd have to ask a high school guidance counselor to see what their policies are.<BR/><BR/>We also have a special situation here, at the moment, because the high school our kids would attend is brand new and is taking 7th-11th graders this year. (Next year there will be a new middle school right next to it; then 7th- and 8th-graders will probably be removed from the high school.)Marcy Muserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17787308098682419608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post-75995253848318479012007-09-25T17:30:00.000-06:002007-09-25T17:30:00.000-06:00Shawna,Believe me, you're not the only one. As lo...Shawna,<BR/><BR/>Believe me, you're not the only one. As long as I've been homeschooling, we still have our days! Yesterday morning, for example, as I was going over our week with my sixth-grader, and she was crying because she has to spend about an hour each week (total time - it doesn't have to be all at once) writing out the answers to questions. I was sorely tempted to make her experience what public schooled kids have to spend their time doing! (And that doesn't even count the time I spend wondering whether I'll be able to adequately prepare her for college - and for life!)<BR/><BR/>Hang in there - those days get fewer as you do this more! :)Marcy Muserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17787308098682419608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post-42394098027885490332007-09-24T21:52:00.000-06:002007-09-24T21:52:00.000-06:00Sis, one thing you missed is that, while you may f...Sis, one thing you missed is that, while you may feel your 7th grader is ready for high school, and be debating what is best to be done, your local high school is probably NOT debating this. Your 7th grader would not go to public high school. She would be forced back to middle school, for the next 2 years, and get only middle school band, as well. (Where most of the kids are playing 1st or at best 2nd year, most likely, as well. Some, though, would be a better match for her, and the middle school might have a couple levels of band or orchestra.) Academics, though, would be limited to the best the middle school has to offer.<BR/><BR/>The high school is not likely to allow her to go there, even for a course or two, for 2 more years, by which point the other questions may also have obvious answers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post-51929928898906252582007-09-23T22:49:00.000-06:002007-09-23T22:49:00.000-06:00Articles like that are so comforting as I daily qu...Articles like that are so comforting as I daily question my choices regarding this decision.Shawnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15226629390376056787noreply@blogger.com