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[StellarStory]

[amird]

from what I have learned by reading (my kid is much younger), there should be no problem - they know the stuff, and they know to take the mark with the correct proportions
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[bittersweet]

We are manily unschoolers. We use Kumon workbooks for writing and math, a literature list and next year we'll start SOTW. But really most of the time, he's on his own.
We will follow the "read a little, write a little" plan as well.
My husband needs testing and verification, so we will test the kids every couple of yrs, but we will not report the results. They will have that experience, fwiw. They will start community college courses for math and writing around 7th grade. We plan to start them slowly with one or 2 classes at a time until they get the hang of it.
And there are structured classes between now and then-dance, art, science, etc. We will enroll as the classes and their interests come up.

[StellarStory]

Wow. Starting college in 7th grade? Wow.

[bittersweet]

it isn't as crazy as it sounds. The colleges here offer an abundance of remedial level courses (because the public schools are ineffective) beginning with elementary level math and english. I will teach them until they are old enough to handle sitting in their seats for 2 hrs and keeping pace with the class. The courses are not demanding (my husband and I are in school now as well, and can compare these courses to others we've taken in other states).
Where I'm from, it's not uncommon for kids to start picking up classes at 14 or 15. We know a few families here who are starting their kids in a few courses at 12-14, and one family graduated their 2 oldest at 14 and 15 so that they could start full time college courses.

[StellarStory]

I'm against starting college so early. I want them to have their childhoods now while they are kids. Each to their own though.

[Theodore]

Heh. A few community college courses won't destroy their childhood, it'll make it interesting.
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[StellarStory]

As I said, each to their own. I personally am just not into that sort of acceleration for my kids.

[bittersweet]

I don't thinkit is excelleration. They will still be working at their own level, mainly on their own time, with 3 hrs a week of clasroom instruction thrown in. And,, of course, we won't push them. If they choose to continue at home, we will accomodate that, but if college is their goal, why not start earning the credit right away rather than learn it at home and then repeat it a year later?

[MrsCatHead]

I don't see why it would be harder for an unschooler to go to college than a regular homeschooler.

Honestly. What are you imagining the problem would be?