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You waited until your kid was in high school to become aware that the public school is substandard?

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I was thinking the same thing. We home schooled our daughter from 2nd to 12th and never regretted a day. Waiting till she is in HS though, could cause a problem with the child, not the teaching. The child will resent not being in school with friends and activities at this late date. My daughter had her own friends and activities as she went along. To force them out now might be very bad between parent and child. A friend of ours pulled their daughter out of school and asked if she could school with our daughter and we said yes. Apparently she was pulled from school as punishment for her daughter, not to get a better education. The daughter rebelled and made so many problems, the mom finally put her back in school.

BTW, The girl was an honor student and couldn't pass the same home school courses my daughter was taking. My daughter was far more advanced than she was and when they graduated, my daughter and her went to the same college and were roomies. She dropped out in 1 year and was pregnant in 2. My daughter graduated with a Bachelor degree in Poly Sci and a minor in Psychology.

It sounds to me this parent is just mad at the school and it would be a huge decision to take the child out of HS now. If the child was for it and not just talked into it, it might work. Home school kids learn to be self starters. If either the parent or the child think home school is easy peasy and doesn't need to be finished, they will fail and drop out. It is a MAJOR undertaking, but IMO, anybody can do it if they want it bad enough.

BTW, we used ABEKA and Saxxon math and loved it.