Re: arrgghh<-- homeschooling for high school courses in ON

[Guest guest]

While we're on the subject of homeschooling, I thought I better

mention an alternative to high school too. There are two different

correspondence type of set ups in Ontario that I'm aware of that

offer high school courses. One is the " Independant Learning Center "

www.ilc.org and the other is AMDEC www.amdec.ca. ILC are traditional

correspondence through the mail courses, where as AMDEC is all

done 'online' through the internet, a special emailing program, class

chats, and online textbooks and teachers notes. It's not free of all

problems, but for me it's given me a way to complete high school.

I just thought maybe mentioning these alternatives to high school

might be helpful for some. I stuck through it in HS as long as I

could until finally I was just doing 1/2 a day and then I just

couldn't do it anymore. The 'desks' (you know the lovely old things

from the early 80s with a broken chair attatched to the desk? Thats

what my school had when I was there from 2001 to 2003) made sitting

(something already hard for my back & shoulders) impossible and at

the end of just one class everything would be hurting. Pain made

(and makes!) concentrating hard and to try to concentrate through

pain to understand what the teacher is saying in an out of control

classroom was impossible. Note taking I eventually gave up on as my

fingers started cramping up and my writing was not legible. I was

never told that any special services were available to me. But

anyway any special chair or desk I might have been able to get would

have been stolen or vandalized there anyway. I agree, a loosing

battle! Although I am happier doing schooling at home through AMDEC

it is not free of frusterations as computer glitches and bad pain

days cause me to fall behind in my 'modules' and offers me plenty of

stress.

I wish there was an easier way to do this! Sheesh, is it to much to

ask for an education? :-/ :-O >:-X

-Rhea

PS. When I enquired about homeschooling from the local high school

there reply was that it's only meant for kids who break a leg and

come back in 6 weeks, that the teachers wouldn't be able to make it

work for me, and that anyway whatever college or university I'd want

to go to would find out that I homeschooled and wouldn't want me.

Hows that for being brushed off? >:-X

[Guest guest]

Hi Rhea,

We will be using the ILC elementary programs for my guys. I liked this set

up because it actually give the kids every strand of each section of the

curriculum instead of doing some of it like they do at school. The

elematary course have been updated and are due for release this summer.

The cost is $120 for the whole academic year with report cards each term.

The home instruction provided by the school board currently provides 5 hours

of instructional time a week (this is the provincial standard). The

teachers are not allowed to use any work completed while they are not their

towards evaluation (new ministry of education policy). Needless to say

got only 2 marks on his whole report card.

Through ILC the kids have phone or email contact with their teacher and can

submit their work through e-mail or snail mail.

There is no enrichment for the programs so we will be doing it ourselves

with a classically based curriculum.

Good luck with your courses.

C.