How fast can I finish one year of regular public school but home schooling instead?
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Right now I am a sophomore in High School. Next year I would like to be home schooled through Florida Virtual School (FLVS). http://www.flvs.net
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Right now I am a sophomore in High School. Next year I would like to be home schooled through Florida Virtual School (FLVS). http://www.flvs.net
In regular school, it takes around 10 months to finish junior year. I want to know if it’s possible to finish junior year of high school in 5 months? Thanks in advance.
April 18th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Try one year Vladimir
April 21st, 2010 at 4:44 am
If you were in public school you’d be wasting about 65% of your time waiting for such non-academic moments as settling down, taking attendance, watching papers get passed out, “any questions about yesterday’s lesson?”, listening to the teacher get interrupted, listening to other students’ questions on something you already understand, doing in-class work intended to make sure you understand the material or intended to generate questions when you don’t, discussing the material just covered, taking pop quizzes, switching papers and grading one another’s pop quizzes, finishing ahead of the rest of the class and not letting the teacher see you staring at the ceiling and giving you busy work to do, and whatever.
Textbooks often give you redundant work, such as in math where you get incessant repetition to do just in case that new transfer student didn’t get long division last year and just in case 1/3 of the class forgot what long division is.
Anyway, if you were working on your own you should be able to work smart and eliminate half the time you’d have to invest if you were in school. The subjects requiring reading won’t be so compressible, but you should still be able to work at your own pace and complete the course in half the time just because you don’t have all the class-wide busy work to do, and if you’re motivated you’ll read more per day than you would if you were working with thirty other kids and going at THEIR pace.
Now, how flvs will feel about your working at your own pace and taking tests before the other students take theirs might be a problem for them. You’ll have to ask flvs if you can work at your own pace. If they don’t, you can come back here and find out about alternatives. Signing up with some school isn’t the only, nor even the best way to go.
Editing to add: I see Mailee has personal experience with flvs allowing her brother to work ahead, so I defer to her. Dorothy
April 21st, 2010 at 7:34 pm
i might be doing FLVS next year too! you would have to work extremely hard to finish in that amount of time. my brother worked on his school ALOT and he finished maybe 2-3 months early.
Edit– my brother didnt do flvs but he did a program almost exactly like it. its called Switched On Schoolhouse its not an online program, you buy the discs for your grade (we borrowed them from friends) and install them on your computer.. but its veeeery similar to flvs. *Mailee*
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Well I’m not sure about FLVS, because that’s not what I’m doing. But if you want to graduate early, you can do what I’m doing. As of January I was a sophmore in High School, my school sucked so I started looking for homeschool options. I started doing what my mom did for home schooling. It’s called American School of Correspondence.
Obviously you have to pay, but in total you only need 18 credits to graduate (music and pe don’t count as credits they accept), but they send you the books, you do the small bit of reading and send them back the open-book exams after the lessons you read. If you do 2 exams a day, or work for like 4 hours, 4 days a week (through the summer/or even take breaks for summer and graduate by March/April next year), you should be able to graduate in a year.
Like me, I should be graduated by October at the earliest and December at the latest and I don’t do much everyday, I sleep in, and work on work from 10am-noonish. Just a though you might want to consider, unless you want to spend Senior year in public school, going to prom, and walking with your class and everything. Damion
April 24th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Dorothy is an absolute dumba**. Public school is good for you. Why the heak would you waste your high school years sitting at home with mommy? You’ll regret that. High school is your prime suffering years. Don’t let them go to waste. Tessables