Hello everyone! I am just joining this board after hearing two of my good friends talk about it so much I just had to come over here and see what was going on (hi ladies!) and while I happened to have a topic I was thinking about this evening...
I have a DS in early elementary school now, and I am worried about school options for him in the future (whether to accelerate, etc.). I was talking to my sister tonight and her DD tells her that she just learned about homeschooling and would my sister homeschool her for middle school, and then maybe send her back to school for high school in a few years? My sister said to me that high school would be so much easier for her DD (who is bored most of the day now in middle school) because so many high school kids end up going for half-days and graduating early because they have enough credits, etc. and that she could just get through it quickly and get on with her life.
So the public high school town my sister lives in is not by any stretch sending >90% off to college (I don't know how many) but there are plenty who do go. So it led me to think...is high school really such a big deal now? I mean, high school as some of us knew it -- all the things that I wonder if my kid will miss out on if he is not there at the same age everyone else is if he is radically accelerated.
I know sports can play into it, and obviously personality is a huge component, but is high school changing with all the AP/IB programs, college credit, early entry/running start programs, etc? Even in my sister's smallish town many kids are getting high school "over with" early to get on with college (or something else).
My DS is years away from this, but it didn't occur to me until I heard her talking about it that maybe high school like it was 20-something years ago is not the same thing as it is today -- so is college (bachelors-level) just the new high school?
