03-10-2019, 09:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2019, 09:50 PM by cookderosa.)
Texas does offer free dual enrollment at many of their colleges. I don't keep lists, but if you're on the Facebook group, use the search to pan back a bit- there are long threads of parents swapping names of free DE colleges.
I don't think you're going to like my answer, especially since homeschooling for college credit is *literally* what I write about all day long- but if he is gifted, then your focus could shift away from accumulating credit and toward feeding his appetite. There was a fantastic blog done by a young man (not 11 - probably 20's) who did a DIY style computer science "degree" from MIT using MOOCs. He journaled his progress on youtube- it's super interesting.
In my opinion, your son's talent and gifts are worth nurturing - I'm a big fan of letting kids develop obsessions.
If he's doing precal now, he's almost at the top high school math, so in reality, he'll be able to test out of math now.... but to what end? He doesn't want to be DONE with math, he probably wants to go DEEP with it- the opposite of degree planning. Unless your goal is to get him out of school and into work, there is no benefit to rushing toward the END of his education, I'd say he's probably entering the best years of his life!
I found it- Scott Young. Google him. Your son could do his homeschooling curriculum that way. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myproje...allenge-2/
I don't think you're going to like my answer, especially since homeschooling for college credit is *literally* what I write about all day long- but if he is gifted, then your focus could shift away from accumulating credit and toward feeding his appetite. There was a fantastic blog done by a young man (not 11 - probably 20's) who did a DIY style computer science "degree" from MIT using MOOCs. He journaled his progress on youtube- it's super interesting.
In my opinion, your son's talent and gifts are worth nurturing - I'm a big fan of letting kids develop obsessions.
If he's doing precal now, he's almost at the top high school math, so in reality, he'll be able to test out of math now.... but to what end? He doesn't want to be DONE with math, he probably wants to go DEEP with it- the opposite of degree planning. Unless your goal is to get him out of school and into work, there is no benefit to rushing toward the END of his education, I'd say he's probably entering the best years of his life!I found it- Scott Young. Google him. Your son could do his homeschooling curriculum that way. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myproje...allenge-2/
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