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High School

Straight Talk to Parents and Teens from Homeschool Graduates

    Homeschool Freebies of the Day has a very interesting offering today, Straight Talk To Parents and Teens from Homeschool Graduates.  This 83 page eBook shares the responses of more than 200 homeschool graduates to a survey that concentrated on four questions.      1. What is your best advice for PARENTS who are currently homeschooling […]

High School Marks

I love homeschooling and its incredible academic benefits.  On the other hand, I do not love marking, and the niggling doubts that it brings to my mind.  Fortunately, where we live grades are not required, and therefore my younger children never receive them.  (They do get happy faces for perfect pages, though.)  On the other […]

Socialization and Homeschooled Teens

  Although homeschooling has many benefits for younger children, there are even more for teens.  One  major bonus is the socialization.  Homeschooled teens are not forced into an age-regimented peer group but are free to be themselves and to choose their own friends of all ages and interests.    Here’s a short list of some […]

Review: Professor in a Box Accounting

  Miss 16 Year-Old wanted to learn accounting, so I bought her the only homeschool accounting course I had ever heard of.  It was a disappointment, but, hey, what could we do?  We had paid for it, and there was not, to my knowledge, anything better available.  Then, as has happened several times already this […]

Homeschool Crew Review: DISCOVER Online, EXPLORE, and PLAN

As you know, I’m from Canada, where many of the US teen institutions are not a big deal.  Prom, college (as opposed to university), fraternities and sororities, SAT tests, and ACT tests are all mostly south-of-the-border things.  In fact, I didn’t even really hear about SAT and ACT tests until very recently.  So much for […]