For those of us who experience education at home, approaching "High School" level can be daunting. When my children were all younger, I didn't spend a great deal of time thinking about it because we didn't worry about grade levels, testing, credits or even segregation of subject matter. In fact, I was usually pretty outspoken about ditching all of those ideas because they relate to the 'standardized' approach and since we were purposely doing the opposite of that - why even worry about it?
Well, life has a funny way of teaching us lessons (irony intended). As my oldest approaches what would typically be the "High School" years, I've found it has become necessary for me to do the grade-level, test-score, credit earned, subject categorization thing. Some of my veteran readers are experiencing a meltdown right now, I know and I totally acknowledge that, but please cut me some slack. I was talking based on my experience to that point in time and you have to agree that much of parenting is 'winging it' so we learn as we go. The good news is that I remain intellectually flexible and not so arrogantly committed to my first ideas that I'm unwilling to change them as new information and situations arise.
Since the "reopening" of this here blog, I've sifted through the drafts folder and tossed whatever was no longer relevant, carried an unpleasant vibe (I was deeply dark and ranty for a while there) and revisited some of the existing posts to make sure they weren't replete with irrelevance or overly snarky.
