K12.com

Well we decided that since public High School is a recipe for failure for Stephen. We are looking into alternatives. We have seen ads on TV and on Yahoo for K12.com. I decided to check it out, and since until the paper is signed it is no foul to back out. Turns out that it is a charter school here in California online. That avoids the requirement to have a certified teacher for home schooling. It is all online with them sending you the supplies to use for each class. From the web site it even looks like lab equipment for lab classes. Of course it could be just slick ads for no real content, but we saw how public school worked last year so we are going to explore this option. We have a phone call with questions today (7/29/2009) at 2 PM. We will see how that goes. Stephen went to the website and checked it out and seems to have some reasonable questions to ask. We know we can get no worthwhile accomplishments without his buy in to the program.
The things I like so far about this program is that it is no cost to us the parent. And it is a mastery based advancement program. You cannot go on to the next section until you have mastered the one you are on. What he is not going to like though is when I talked to the admissions adviser on the phone he will probably have to redo his freshman year, of course he didn't get over an F in any class except study hall. He even failed PE which if you show up, dress out, and pretend to participate you get a C, Don't ask me how I know this just believe me. I am sure I will blog what has been said in the days to come.

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