Newbie--unschooling and parent direction?
Ren Allen
" we have a
community college 5 minutes up the road."
Even more reason to not worry yet! Community college is a great way
to go for the first two years. If she then wants a big University, all
they are going to look at are those two years at the community
college....much easier way to work into a University sometimes.
Most community colleges I've checked into have some kind of enrollment
for high school age (sometimes they can even do "dual enrollment" free
classes) and the main "hoop" they have to jump through is a placement
test. If they don't score high enough in certain areas, it only means
remedial courses...no big deal.
I've had friends get out of those in unique ways too.....
Ren
community college 5 minutes up the road."
Even more reason to not worry yet! Community college is a great way
to go for the first two years. If she then wants a big University, all
they are going to look at are those two years at the community
college....much easier way to work into a University sometimes.
Most community colleges I've checked into have some kind of enrollment
for high school age (sometimes they can even do "dual enrollment" free
classes) and the main "hoop" they have to jump through is a placement
test. If they don't score high enough in certain areas, it only means
remedial courses...no big deal.
I've had friends get out of those in unique ways too.....
Ren
kkraczek1969
Yes, that's how I came to homeschooling in the first place- I had some
high school age homeschoolers in a class I was taking, and they were
telling me how easy it was to get in, and that it was free.
In fact, I never thought that I was capable of homeschooling at all
(as I then saw it as "schooling") until one of the kids who'd been
homeschooled all his life pointed out that I couldn't do any worse
than the schools! What an eye opening moment that was for me- for the
first time, I really felt what it was like to have "a ton of bricks
lifted from my chest!" :)
Kristin
high school age homeschoolers in a class I was taking, and they were
telling me how easy it was to get in, and that it was free.
In fact, I never thought that I was capable of homeschooling at all
(as I then saw it as "schooling") until one of the kids who'd been
homeschooled all his life pointed out that I couldn't do any worse
than the schools! What an eye opening moment that was for me- for the
first time, I really felt what it was like to have "a ton of bricks
lifted from my chest!" :)
Kristin
> " we have a
> community college 5 minutes up the road."
>
> Even more reason to not worry yet! Community college is a great way
> to go for the first two years. If she then wants a big University, all
> they are going to look at are those two years at the community
> college....much easier way to work into a University sometimes.
>
> Most community colleges I've checked into have some kind of enrollment
> for high school age (sometimes they can even do "dual enrollment" free
> classes) and the main "hoop" they have to jump through is a placement
> test. If they don't score high enough in certain areas, it only means
> remedial courses...no big deal.
>
> I've had friends get out of those in unique ways too.....
>
> Ren
>
Pamela Sorooshian
On Jan 6, 2006, at 7:50 PM, kkraczek1969 wrote:
I decided early on that I wouldn't worry about WHAT the kids learned
or HOW MUCH they learned. I'd focus on making sure that at least I
didn't turn them off to learning. In other words, better if they
learned no math at all than that they learn to dislike it.
If they don't learn it, they can always learn later. If they learn to
hate it, it is going to be very difficult for them, later.
That different focus made all the difference in the world.
-pam
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> In fact, I never thought that I was capable of homeschooling at allThat's really interesting, Kristin.
> (as I then saw it as "schooling") until one of the kids who'd been
> homeschooled all his life pointed out that I couldn't do any worse
> than the schools! What an eye opening moment that was for me- for the
> first time, I really felt what it was like to have "a ton of bricks
> lifted from my chest!" :)
I decided early on that I wouldn't worry about WHAT the kids learned
or HOW MUCH they learned. I'd focus on making sure that at least I
didn't turn them off to learning. In other words, better if they
learned no math at all than that they learn to dislike it.
If they don't learn it, they can always learn later. If they learn to
hate it, it is going to be very difficult for them, later.
That different focus made all the difference in the world.
-pam
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