Writing the checks for another homeschool year...

Thank goodness for low cost college options...just got done writing a bunch of checks:

For 16 yr old daughter:

Seminary Extension - Introduction to Christian Ethics (ACE Evaluated - 3 credits for ethics)

Clovis Community College - Chemistry for Gen Ed 4 credits

LSU - Elementary Latin 4 Credits

COSC - Payment 2 of 3 for enrollment service fee [got 1st payment in before tuition went up July 1 ]

For 17 yr old son:

Clovis for Basic Algebra 2

More checks to be written, but it's OK. The 17 year old is going to enroll in a B&M class where I work - Intro to Renewable Energy. He's also going to be CLEPing Micro and Macro Econ, and DSST Technical Writing. He should graduate homeschool with 20 college credits.

My 16 year old will be taking the Calculus CLEP in September - then off to Calc II through Ohio University. Sometime this fall she plans to take the DSST Principles of Public Speaking - and then this Spring, Intro to Physics with San Juan College in NM. She'll graduate with an AA from COSC with her homeschool diploma in May.

I can't thank everyone on this board enough for the tips about Clovis, CLEPs, etc. You've all saved our family a lot of money, but more importantly, one of the challenges of homeschooling is showing colleges that your homeschool has academic rigor. With the college work my two oldest have done, the evidence is there. Thanks again.

Shawn

PS - My interviews are completed for my dissertation - I anticipate transcription, data analysis, and Chapter 4 completed by August 22.

 

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That's fantastic Shawn!!! My children are not too far behind yours, and I hope they can walk a similar path.

 

Can I just shake your hand for having your kid take Latin?

I wish my high school would offer Latin, but they're so wrung up in Spanish, they fail to see the benefit of Latin. Students take Spanish because they're told it's easy, when in fact it's just because the teachers aren't that great. Furthermore, it's not like they learn to converse in it. At least in taking Latin you get the benefit of learning word roots and such which will definitely help in the long run.

Kudos to you!

-Matt

 

I wish I could take credit for it, but the credit goes to the Provost of Southern Virginia University. We visited the school last Spring, and he asked why my daughter had not taken a language course. In earlier attempts with my daughter, I suggested the usual suspects (French, Spanish, ASL, etc.) to no avail. He recommended Latin - and my daughter said OK.

Shawn

 

It's too bad they don't learn to converse in Spanish in your school's program. I took it in high school and I'm very glad I did. I lived in California for over 10 years and it came in very handy. Sometimes I've had to order my food at Wendy's/BK/McD in Spanish because they had no idea what I wanted otherwise.

Latin would definitely have come in handy for the verbal part of the GRE but Spanish has been a huge help to me living on the west coast.

 

I was visiting SVU a couple of years ago (SVU's former President, the Late Dr. Curtis Fawson, had been a mentor to me at BYU) and was amused that the local residents pronounce their city, Buena Vista, as "Be-you-na Vista". I gave Dr. Porter, SVU Professor of Spanish a chuckle when I asked if he taught his students to say "Be-you-nas dias" and "Be-you-nas tardes".