“Does anyone have thoughts on Khan Academy as a solution?”
Looks good on first look. I wish I’d had this about 3 years ago. I used the National Repository of Online Courses for my daughter. http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/nrocdemos.html
She was enrolled in 2 university classes at 13 while doing 2 NROC courses at home. She missed the high school “Very Highly Gifted” program by 2 points. She scored so high on the ACT that there was no point in sending her to high school. It was suggested that my son be given drugs for ADDH when he was 6. I told them to stuff it, he was just bored in school. He graduated college with honors last Spring. Public education is designed to churn out socialist, dem. bots, so yes, it is failing.
Will look at later. My one daughter got into honors, and the other just missed it (8th grade). But summer assignments they both did the honors level stuff, and will try to keep that going - or go with something more.
Just found out that next year there will be no honor’s classes in junior high, something to do with all the kids should have an equal chance. My wife laughs when I call them a bunch of commies, until I explain more. Same goes for all of the “group projects” they do.
Luckily they are moving up to High School, and they can get into the Honors classes just by wanting to be in. (The one daughter missed it this year by three points on her essay).
Thanks much for posting the link to the Nat’l Repository! What an incredible resource!
You must be so PROUD!!!!
This is what should be done for kids who have large brains; for the life of me, I do not understand why we are trashing our most valuable resource, while other countries cultivate theirs. There is no reason that we can support some slut who had nine to ten kids out of wedlock, but not support a brainy kid who just needs the right mentoring to really blaze a trail.