[ECingMama]

Originally Posted by rdsmommy

I just wanted to add that if dd or ds were to be home again I would definitely use accellus again. It wasn’t perfect but ds did retain a lot more using it than he had been with other curriculum. I think the difficulty with Chemistry was more because it was a difficult subject for him. The good thing with accellus is that you can try it out and switch if it doesn’t work since your only paying one month at a time.

On a side note: The “into school” part is a struggle for my dd too but for different reasons. She is a perfectionist and feels like she has to be the best. It is not good for her mental health especially on weeks like this one where she is sick and freaking out about missing school. I wish I could get through to her that she doesn’t have to go to Yale to succeed in life. (I mean that literally. She now has her sights set on Yale.)

Since this is my daughter's first year in public school, she's not used to the culture. And this particular school does attrack kids who want to earn 4.0s. My kid wouldn't be interested in that even if she'd always been at public school. She's fine with a mix of As, , and Cs. Most of her classes have 18 students. Her English class only has 5. She can't hide in there, so she has an A.

Oh. Yale. Wow. A friend went there. I'm not sure she could have gotten in without playing soccer. It's next to impossible. I hope your daughter finds a way into the school where she'll thrive, Yale or not.

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Were your students able to finish the classes in a year? My son was scamming me early on. It shows that he did a class if he just opens it and leaves. I didn't realize he wasn't doing the class for a bit. Now he's behind. He prefers if I sti with him for 1/2 or more of the lessons. I don't mind, but I don't want my daughter to get behind in high school classes.

So my question is: if she does whatever they automatically assign, will she finish the year's work?