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HI Everyone,
Here is my situation - we are currently enrolled with MODG this year, and our oldest two students are ds in 10th and 8th grades at the moment, and use the Teacher Assisted program. We just received our re-enrollment forms, and after doing the math, it appears that to keep even the oldest dc enrolled next year, it will cost our family close to $2,000.00, once all the various fees are paid, books and syllabi are purchased, etc. Our next student will be in 9th next year. To add him, it would be another roughly $1,000.00, bringing the total up to around $3,000.00 or so. (As an aside, we also have 2 other school aged dc in grade school, plus an 18 month old toddler). This just seems like an awful lot of money to me right now.
The whole reason we enrolled with MODG in the first place was for the TA program. For various reasons, I am very, very burned out (almost to the point of giving up on homeschooling entirely), and have found that the accountability that having an outside source to direct questions to and help with some of the grading has been a very positive experience for both of our older two dc and for me. While I like some of the coursework in MODG, I do not really consider myself to be a "classical" educator per se, and while I like some aspects of the curriculum in MODG, I have found that some of the MODG recommended materials are simply not a good fit for our family. We need to make a decision about re-enrollment by April 1st, at the latest, to ensure our spot. I am really torn.....Is there another way to have some accountability and grading for the older students (the oldest, in particular), without having to pay thousands of $$ for it? I really don't imagine us needing it for every subject, as right now, our oldest just uses the TA for 3 subjects.
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
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You could do your own transcript, and pay for single courses. Currently, I am grading subjects that have answer keys. That seems to keep the drama down between my teen and I, and doesn't take too long. I am paying for history and English through Seton (ds's choice to use a standard textbook program, btw...NOT mine  ). These are the subjects that involve more subjective grading. I felt confident my grades were fair, but ds wasn't so convinced. Now he knows that mom was more lenient!  In any case, its been nice, when he starts to challenge my suggestions, to just tell him, "Well, turn it in and see what they say..."
Anyway, if you picked and chose your coursework carefully among your high schoolers, you might be able to save a decent amount of money, overall.
BTW, this has been my hardest school year ever (I seem to remember we have some munchkins similar in age). I caved to workbook schooling for the first half of the year entirely. I've slowly been able to add in literature again since January, but given your recent question on CHC, it might be worth it to consider CHC's workbooks (which don't require their lesson plans at all) and then just find something easy for science and history, like having them read good books themselves if they are reading on their own (along with judicious use of Magic Schoolbus videos from the library  ), or planning one read aloud at a time that was either science-y or history related? Mater Amabilis has some fabulous suggestions for fiction that has a nature twist to it and their lists are free on the net.
Hope this helps, tea.
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Tea
We switched to Kolbe this year and have been very satisfied with the lesson plams. We used TAP with MODG and now use EES with Kolbe.
My HS student is happy. I think there is cost saving with Kolbe.
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Another choice is St Thomas Aquinas.
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Books,
What are the History and English with Seton like? Specifically, how much writing do they want in the English (or even History, for that matter)? My ds who will be in 11th next year is mildy dyslexic, so that is the real challenge for him.
Thanks so much!
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time4tea wrote:
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What are the History and English with Seton like? Specifically, how much writing do they want in the English (or even History, for that matter)? My ds who will be in 11th next year is mildy dyslexic, so that is the real challenge for him.
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