Homeschool High School prep and College Prep
Here are resources beyond the other ones noted elsewhere.
The below is all likely non Christian. If I see any Christian ones I'll note it.
These should be a good help and there's more links below. These are from advice by moms online.
Advice:
What you really need right now is to give your child a solid 7th grade education that prepares him for high school. Later next year (8th) you can begin working on a four-year plan for high school, using college admissions requirements as a guide. The dirty secret is: IT IS NOT HARD TO GET INTO COLLEGE. For anybody. There’s a college for every student out there. Now, getting OUT of college (and without tens of thousands in debt) is a different matter. But there is ZERO reason for an homeschooled to worry about getting their kid in, especially if you do a halfway decent job making sure their transcript reflects the entrance requirements (remember community colleges don’t even have those).
My oldest was accepted to a nine colleges, including two full rides. There is nothing to second guess here. 😊
High School Preparation
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Highschool & College all mapped out forU.
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Here are resources for high schoolers, including information on college admissions. Read through it with your child and see if anything resonates:
College Preparation stuff
FB Group - not Christian
College Confident Homeschoolers
For more helps:
It's Not That Hard to Homeschool
* blog posts, podcasts, books, resources and FB groups that might be of help.
Here are some parent comments, tips, advice and encouragement:
Have your child do dual enrollment [in college]. My 9th and 10th grader take online college classes; at two different community colleges. They take them online with the exception of ASL. One semester class counts as an entire high school course. Their one math class counted for an entire year. They can easily graduate a year early.
A very large number of my extended family are educators in the public school system. Homeschooling provides flexibility that public school simply can't. It can meet the needs of individual students in ways that public school simply can't. One size does not fit all. NONE, I mean literally NONE of the training I got to be a teacher actually helped me educate my own children. I was taught how to deal will marching large numbers of kids through material I had no choice in using and at a pace I had no choice in either, while also juggling piles of bureaucratic nonsense. Teachers are way overworked and a large portion of what they do is NOT set up to help individual students thrive. It is mearly to help as many students as possible survive and get through the end of the school year so boxes can be checked. Teachers don't have much choice. Do some students thrive anyway? Yes. Thankfully, yes. But that training did not help me help my kids. You know what helped me? Walking away from the public school mentality, realizing learning can and does happen all around us all the time, in many ways, and even if there are subjects I suck at, I can still facilitate learning with my kids. And I have. Eldest is in college and thriving. She made the Dean's List. She was elected to the Student Government. She already has a part time job in her field (they work around her school schedule). And so on. You know where she was when we started homeschooling? She was starting 6th grade, should have been in 7th, and was BARELY reading at a 1st grade level. She couldn't spell to save her life. Math was a nightmare. The school couldn't help her. They just kept passing her along. She had no self-esteem left. She thought she was stupid. I had no idea how to help her either but NO ONE is going to work harder to help my kids than me. I had tried doing what the school said to do. Tried for years. I started over. I researched. I asked questions. I dug deeper. And I found the resources and the approach she needed to finally THRIVE. Homeschool.
There are sooooo many resources and approaches to homeschooling and so many ways to learn. And there are zillions of homeschoolers that go on to college or straight into a successful career in the workforce. If your kiddo is only in 7th grade... There is time. 😊
Perhaps this will help too:
If you want to outsource some classes there are ample options.
For example, Excelsior Homeschool offers some great live on line core and elective courses as well as dual enrollment through LeTourneau University.
If your child wants to take Advanced Placement classes maybe skim the options through Pennsylvania AP Homeschoolers.
Maybe you are worried about higher level maths. No problem. Here are multiple options: High School Math Live (also covers Middle School, includes both on-level and Advanced math, as well as SAT/ACT prep, etc.); Thinkwell; Math Without Borders; Math U See; Saxon with Nicole the Math Lady; Mr. D Math, etc.
The advantage of homeschooling is that you can find the resources and approach and pacing that works for the kiddo in front of you instead of having your student have to follow lock step with everyone else through material that may be badly designed, poorly implemented or just a bad fit for how your child learns. Your child will not get lost in the crowd. 😊
