Best homeschool program ( 9th grader ) ???

Question

My son is not doing well at all in public school. He is on the lazy side/ needs alot of motivation, also smart, but at public school he is getting distracted ( which does not take much ) so i need a program with some guidance. Any suggest. i found keystone, it looked good!

Answer 1

I am cyber schooled. I am in 8th. But my sister is in 9th. We were in K12 if thats what your looking at. I do not recommend that! It is VERY difficult ! there is a syllabus and very confusing. But my mother loved the books. So we are now in a new school called agora. It uses the same books. http://www.agora.org/

So it is the same but without all that extra work. They will send your son a free laptop (they are AWESOME laptops!) and all the books and materials for free. EVERYTHING is free. So that is what I think will be best

♥maddie

P.s. It says 'there is still time to enroll for 2007-2008! But hurry! 2nd semester startes soon.!' umm i am just saying that the second semester starts the 22nd so you might want to enroll and stay in public school untill you get the books. Like I said my sister and I are in it.

Answer 2

Here are some good online options:

http://www.aopacademy.com

http://www.sycamoretree.com

http://www.e-tutor.com

http://www.oakmeadow.com/curriculum/onli...

Here are some text book type programs:

http://www.abeka.com

http://www.bjupress.com

http://www.aop.com

http://www.aceministries.com

http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com

He really will need to stay on top of it to complete his work with these types of programs, so you will still have to monitor him a bit.

Answer 3

There are many good programs, and learning approaches out there, so it really depends on what you want. If you want an accredited program, then look at umbrella schools like ABeka, Bob Jones, Keystone, Laurel Springs, Texas Tech ODE.

If accredited is not a concern, then you can mix and match different things for each course: Saxon for math, writing strands and easy grammar for language arts, rosetta stone for foreign language, apologia for science, living books from the library for history, so on and so forth.

But, may I point out that there are no fewer distractions at home. It takes an incredible amount of dedication and self control to be successful. The guidance you are seeking will not come from a program, it must come from you.

Think of it this way, if he is not motivated to do his work with the threat of failing in the public schools, what will motivate him to sit in front of a computer(or at a desk or at the kitchen table or at the library) and do his work with that threat gone?

You will need to take an active role and provide step by step accountability until he develops the desire to learn.

It could be that he is bored with the publicschool and once you give him the opportunity to learn on his own, he may thrive, but I just wanted you to understand, that the accountability is not built in to the program.

Answer 4

It really depends on where you live.  I use ILC and I live in Canada.  Alot of people I know who live in the US use k12.

Answer 5

at the end of some of the tests there are lot of essay questions is you son good at that. My son struggled with them

so we are doing penn foster high school.

www.penfoster.com