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I wonder whether they are doing this because they want to check up on you or whether they want to boost their school-wide scores.

Well, it's not the state achievement testing. They actually aren't allowed to do that via NCLB. That's meant to measure the teacher and if the kid isn't enrolled for a particular subject they aren't allowed to administer that.

It's the district assessments. That's an idea I hadn't thought about, though, that if their high performance helps boost their *rep* within the district.

Perhaps they're checking up on us, I don't know why they would.

Oh well, it could be for a variety of reasons. At some point both the parent and the admins/teacher have to have trust in one another in order to make partial homeschool or dual enrollment successful for the child.

I think partial homeschooling requires patience and flexibility on both the part of the parent and the school.

The school had an ad in the local hs newsletter. While the ad didn't mention homeschoolers I thought it was worth asking about. They were open to the idea even though they tried to sell me a full time enrollment first, of course The tuition is adjusted almost proportionally. Last year we paid 1/5 of the tuition, this year is a little bit more as they lowered the f/t tuition.

We chose the days based on the class schedule. Most of the academics are done in the morning. The afternoons are reserved for drama, art, dance, PE, music, story time, etc. The kids go there for lunch, recess, drama, music, art, snack, another recess and a little bit here and there. It works pretty well for us.

The school is very small. There are only a few children in the k-1 and 2nd-3rd classrooms which I think helps. One of the schools top priorities is making sure that the kids get along well. So far it has been working fine socially. I do worry that this may stop at some point but so far so good.

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We considered making a similar arrangement with a private GT school. They were low on enrollment, so they were happy to work with us. We chose to go another direction--a co-op, and then ultimately part-time with the school for homeschoolers--but the GT school was quite willing to work something out with us that would suit our needs, with the tuition to be prorated.

I suspect a school that had a waitlist wouldn't be interested. But if numbers are low, I'd bet a lot of private schools would consider partial enrollment.

Our state allows for dual enrollment. Mine attended just for the gifted pull-out program in 5th grade (mostly for social reasons; it wasn't that great a program). Next year my children will be taking a foreign language (hopefully Chinese, but I'm not sure yet) and band. I'd consider sending them as much as half-time, but honestly, there's nothing else offered at their level. Which sounds kind of snotty in general conversation, but I assume y'all would get what I mean.

We are having the same problem. I finally came clean with the counselor when I figured out her DD is gifted in one subject area. She told me to look elsewhere for anything but specials.