I think the hardest battle is the Calc at college vs. AP Calc--difficult for a district to rationalize letting him take a college course when they offer what they consider to be the equivalent.
Good point! So I think Calculus will be our primary focus, because I don't think they can rationalize not letting him attend a private university for Calc. Then it should be easier to explain why he wants to attend physics and English at the college.
Lastly, over half the states have a Virtual Charter School (free) which generally offer more flexibility. (My state is not one). Gaining in popularity are the international cyberschools like K12 or Stanford Online High School. It just depends how important the diploma is...some colleges DO require it, so he might want to think where he wants to go to school before he goes off-grid.
We DO have free high school courses available online. The issue with this is the waste of time for unnecessary work.
The counselor would like them to take their
regular courses (AP and college) AND do the
high school English and math online AND take all of the
other required classes for a high school diploma that were not requirements in CA. (Health, geography, financial lit, computer technology, etc...)
I totally understand the diploma subject requirements, and my 12th grade daughter has been working on them, but why the additional English, math, and sciences? By having received A's in them and higher level classes at a college and proving it on tests at the state college here, why would she have to take something like high school freshman and sophomore English? Algebra II or Precalc? She has taken all of these at the college, with the college classes including College Algebra and Precalc (exact matches to me), and the English being college-level English classes. (BTW, her college GPA is a 3.88)
She has a full course load making up the high school general requirements and taking several AP and college classes (finishing her AA). They are trying to (successfully)force her to
repeat classes on the side (online or at school), just because she took the subjects (or higher levels of them) at a college and not at a high school.
We're trying to figure this out ourselves, so I really shouldn't be giving advice--though I will say that all of the zillions of hours of meetings with school district admin, counselors, etc. last year were a WASTE OF TIME for me. And very depressing.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this. I was exactly planning on doing this - going to meetings, talking to the very weak connections in the district that I have, giving up my time many times over. Ultimately, I'd like to straighten this out for others that follow. I know that the public schools are to allow them to learn at their demonstrated level and not below, especially if the opportunity is there. I thought I read this somewhere. Anyway, I'll post what occurs and look forward to any other advice. It's been very helpful and calming, knowing there is support online.
