Dd#1, who is currently an 11 y/o 7th grader, has been expressing some significant reservations about enrolling in our local hs in 9th grade. While we have some local options for choicing into other high schools, we are also considering an alternative route for high school including an online hs or early college admission or homeschooling combined w/ some courses at the local community college.
We really don't have any good local options (or maybe even any local options) for early entrance college. In terms of online schooling, Stanford's OHS looks interesting but very expensive. We really can't afford to pay for hs given that we don't even have much saved for college and that will be necessary to pay for in that there aren't any free college options whereas there are free hs options.
We would like dd to be eligible for college scholarships and worry that taking too alternative of a route might make that harder as well. For instance, on the off chance that she was one of the few kids in our state selected for a very competitive full ride scholarship that is only available to be applied for by kids in the top 5% of their graduating class, that would be obviously wonderful. If she isn't part of a "graduating class" (i.e. -- homeschooled or something else), she loses the opportunity to apply for these types of scholarships.
I guess that I am just thinking out loud here. Have any of you taken an alternative route like online schooling for hs and how is it working out?
