I am Homeschooling my youngest in English and Social Studies because she was scheduled to have the same English teacher as my oldest. I refuse to let that happen. My youngest is writing essays while her peers are looking for vocabulary words in a text two grade levels below what we are studying. I am integrating my study of classical History with classical literature (we are reading derivative works of The Iliad and the Odyssey while we study the Mycenaean Greeks). We will study Oedipus Rex when we study classical Greece. Finally to wrap the semester up we will study Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar while we study Rome. Her peers will be reading The Outsiders and its sequel (books my daughter read two years ago at the same time my oldest was reading them for class).
With a lot of work and fighting I was able to get my daughter into 8th Science and 8th Math as a 7th grader. She will be challenged in these classes, and we have excellent science and math teachers.
The funniest part of this whole process is that my daughter is not in the Talented and Gifted program - she was not asked to join it even though she is obviously doing above grade level work.
We do not have Junior ROTC at my daughter’s High School. It was one of my best experiences while I was in High School. While I ultimately did not pursue a military career, I learned a great deal and developed an appreciation for our Armed Forces.