Online High School??

[ballin4life]

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Why not just do the normal highschool(with most advanced classes possible), and just take online extra AP courses etc?

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This is the answer. Normal classes, and then take additional subjects online.

As a child prodigy myself, I went to a different school from my friends for 4th and 5th grade for the district's gifted program, and it really did hurt my friendships. Even if I would see them on weekends or after school or whatever, I still felt left out when they talked about classes, teachers, school gossip etc. Also, they still make fun of me about it to this day. Your child's friends may make fun of him for switching to online school. School is easy, and it sounds like your high school sucks, but it is definitely an important time for socialization. So I'd reccomend taking some subjects at school and additional subjects at home, to get the best of both worlds.

[React1oN]

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Why not just do the normal highschool(with most advanced classes possible), and just take online extra AP courses etc?

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This is the answer. Normal classes, and then take additional subjects online.

As a child prodigy myself, I went to a different school from my friends for 4th and 5th grade for the district's gifted program, and it really did hurt my friendships. Even if I would see them on weekends or after school or whatever, I still felt left out when they talked about classes, teachers, school gossip etc. Also, they still make fun of me about it to this day. Your child's friends may make fun of him for switching to online school. School is easy, and it sounds like your high school sucks, but it is definitely an important time for socialization. So I'd reccomend taking some subjects at school and additional subjects at home, to get the best of both worlds.

[/ QUOTE ]Good post.

I hope he makes this decision, esp for the child's sake. It's the best decision by such a large margin.

[entertainme]

Update: We went in and talked to the Dean of Students on Thursday. After talking about it with The Boy and having him review the online course sample we set up his schedule as follows:

Classes at school:

Honors Algebra II
Biology
Intro to Engineering and Tech
Phy Ed

Classes Online:

Honors English
Honors World History
Game Development I & II
German I

So, he'll be in school half days and at home half days. It should give him a chance to try online courses with the chance to go at his own pace and be responsible to motivate himself. He's pretty excited about the concept.

At the same time he'll be in school every day so he'll still be connected to the social network.

I'll follow up with a trip report sometime next year.

Thank you to everyone who replied.

The Poker Mom

[capone0]

I think most teenagers would be excited about the concept of slacking at home and doing what they want. That's why they need to be in school.

[RayPowers]

Well, that's quite the lineup of classes. Good luck and definitely let us know how month 1 goes. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Ray

[kyleb]

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I think most teenagers would be excited about the concept of slacking at home and doing what they want. That's why they need to be in school.

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[censored] yeah, son - I took my last year of high school classes through the community college, all online.

Unfortunately, I had a full time job from 9-5 as well, so I didn't get to slack off. However, it would have been nice...

[emon87]

LOL @ taking a language online.