Posted on 03/04/2020 5:26:04 PM PST by Ansela
I recommend the University of Texas online high school. I don’t recommend Keystone or Alpha Omega.
However, the school will let her stay home if you get a doctor's note saying she is still sick and needs to stay home. Often they will send homework home for her, and can advise her on where to learn on line. (Khan academy for example has good math courses).
That will give you a week or two to find other resources.
after a cold or influenza, the immune system is weak and the chances of getting another bad cold/bronchitis/pneumonia/ etc. is higher than normal. So there is a good argument to keep your child home for a month to let her recover.
As for corona virus: It's been over-hyped by the press. Part of it is because pushing hysteria is what the media does, and part of it is to bash Trump.
For healthy persons it is no worse than the flu.
One reason they are worried about corona virus is because it's a new germ, and if everyone doing caregiving catches it (including all the doctors and nurses), there won't be enough healthy people to care for the sick. That's what happened in China.
And you have to remember malnutrition (in the past people in China starved, so older people might have weakened immune systems), crowding in the slums, and air pollution in China make things worse.
This is the same problem for the influenza.
of course, I've seen old people die of the influenza, and back in the 1998 epidemic, we even had to send a few kids to specialty hospitals and one got put on a respirator.
If the corona virus hits your area, I suspect they will close schools and churches and stop visiting of nursing homes. This should have been done in Washington state, but of course they didn't do it.
I suspect when the corona virus hits the large homeless population of California (who often take drugs and are alcoholic so have poor immune systems), we'll see quite a few deaths too.
but you should be okay.
As a parent who has homeschooled 4 children you are not making a wise decision if you are basing this on a overhyped media driven drama fest.
It is not popular on here, but there was video out of China of doctors in masks and Tyvek suits loading three small children into one body bag, which was supposed to be Corona.
I am not saying pull your kids out, but the truth is nobody really knows yet what this is going to do. China wasn’t exactly open with their data, and I assume there was a reason they wouldn’t let anyone else in. We’ve already seen a strain form that massively increased how contagious and lethal the virus is, and one family had several mutations just in it, so it is a fast mutator. I will be surprised if we do not see another strain develop.
As for trusting the government to be overly cautious, I know I would not. They are already telling everyone a mask will not reduce exposure, as they tell them our healthcare workers need the masks.
One other thing people should consider is, there is advantage in avoiding this, to the extent that if it comes into your house, everyone is probably getting it, and if you have elderly relatives, it will have a good chance of making it to them.
Personally, my strategy is avoid it as long as possible, simply so there will be more information on what is going on, and maybe spring breaks and it goes away. I can always reverse that plan and let exposure happen if it is nothing. But you can’t reverse it if it is actually something and you let yourself get exposed.
It works to make them more independent and a self starter. We did have to get a math tutor for a semester in high school, otherwise it was easy.
No dope, no pregnancy, no drinking,(until college), no jail. Sang in a gospel quartet until senior year. Traveled all over the eastern US singing in churches. Sang with Poet Voices, Tally family, and the Brady's.
If you work it right, they can do things public school won't permit them to do. Besides, ask yourself what public school is teaching them that is any good. How to be a Marxist transgender that wants to save the earth?
NH has a similar online school, called VLACS: https://vlacs.org/
Disclaimer: My wife created an online HSLDA HS English class. My daughter graduated from Patrick Henry College. We live in Loudoun County, Virginia and homeschooled our kids through HS.
There is an incredible graduation experience at the homeschool annual conference in Richmond... where you hand out the diploma to your kids. Head down there in a couple months and check it out (but book hotel early... it is a huge conference).
Do not go by county guidelines. HSLDA is nationwide but HQ in VA. They are attorneys who know VA law better than the school districts themselves. To us, membership was not optional... even prior to our direct association with them.
Here was our path:
Calvert Education (curriculum/online): Extension of a private, traditional school in Baltimore. They did not have a HS program back then so we supplemented with local homeschool chapters (classroom teaching), Liberty online, HSLDA online, son took a few classes at NOVA community college for senior year and got into a very competitive major at a VA state university.
Today there are many online programs for HS, including universities. It is a road well traveled at this point and, for now at least, VA is a great state for it.
Enjoy the journey!
Homeschool is NOT free of expenses.
I want to thank everyone for all the helpful advice. I don’t quite share the negative perception of the public school system that many of you have, although I certainly understand it, but I think it will be in my family’s best interest to take her out of public school for now at least. I spoke to my doctor today and she said that I am medically too fragile to be exposed to coronavirus, and kids can be a vector for it, even though they don’t usually get very sick from it. I am not of the opinion that this is just a hoax, and I think it’s already far more widespread than what we can see from the official numbers. It is unfortunate that the government has not been more prepared - we should have had aggressive testing from day 1 (and free testing - when it comes to a public health issue like this, a bit of socialism is good, since the more this thing spreads, the more it harms the economy and kills people). But it is what it is, and now we have to make the best of it. Stay safe, everyone, and thank for all the advice.
Ansela
Since Mar 4, 2020
You joined FR just to post this thread?
Kinda missing the point Sara, right? The cost/benefit ratio is way beyond compare. That is the point.
I’m a long time lurker...
That is for sure. Sorry to misunderstand you.
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