[HSList] Hewitt - Opinions Anyone?
Karen
I am interested in the name of the workbooks you were using?? Wasn't
sure what comprehensive workbooks meant. Thanks:)
TIM BANDY wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-03-06 15:14:55 EST, you write:
>
> << Has anyone out there done any business with Hewitt Homeschooling? >>
>
> You might want to consult Mary Pride, "Big Book of Home Schooling." This
> is the authoritive, comprehensive reference book (set actually) on
> Homeschooling. She reviews and rates homeschool curriculums and HS programs.
> Given your son's age you may want to take a look at ICS (International
> Correspondance Schools). They are a respected, accredited correspondance
> school. They offer an entire HS education, including exams, a teacher who is
> reached by way of an 800 number. The entire program including a diploma is
> under $3,000. Given the problem you discussed, I would consider redoing H.S.
> Christian Light, a non-profit, old homeschool curriculum publisher, has
> inexpensive diagnostic test booklets which you may want to consider using. You
> can find out exactly where your son is and where his weaknesses are. Christian
> Light has curriculum booklets that match up with the results of the diagnostic
> test results. Their materials are highly rated by both Mary Pride and the
> other main homeschool reference.
> By the way, I pulled our 13 year old from a private school, a parochial
> school. We discovered that they are not what they used to be. We took her from
> an elementary run by another diocese two years early. She has never spent one
> day in a public school. She was an honor student, whom I discovered did not
> have the reading comprehension or math skills I felt she should have. The
> first three months I had her go through Comprehensive School Workbooks,
> begining with third grade (They have all the basic subjects) and including
> sixth grade. At the same time she did the entire set of Hirsh, "What Every
> -------- Grader Schould Know and we enrolled her in a twelve week reading
> program with a tutoring company. Within six weeks, she had senior high reading
> comprehension and could take notes for the first time. We learned about the
> note taking problem, when she had to take sermon notes for catacism. sixteen
> months later, she takes notes on a college junior level and reads at a college
> level. After the work books and a year of Saxon math, she is fully grade level
> in math, which is significantly above national average.
> BTW, you may want to read Grace Llewellyn, "Teenage Liberation Handbook;"
> It is about dropping out of school, homeschooling and college. Our local
> Community College takes homeschooled students without a diploma. It is fully
> accredited and accepts 16 year old students, under certain conditions. We are
> thinking of sending her to Australian or England for college. They still
> provide a real college education over there.
TIM BANDY
In a message dated 98-03-10 05:54:57 EST, you write:
<< I am interested in the name of the workbooks you were using?? Wasn't
sure what comprehensive workbooks meant. >>
The workbooks I mentioned are American Education Publishing, "Comprehensive
Curriculum of basic skills." There is a workbook for each grade, beginning
with preschool. Several specialists contribute to each volume. Each volume
contains the all the skills for a year of school. There are quizes and tests
and a teaching answer key in the back. Each work sheet can be removed from the
book but we used a notebook for answers instead. American Education
Publishing, 425 Orange St., Ashland, Ohio 44805. If you have access to a SAM's
Consumer Club, you can buy them there at half price, which will be $8.49. The
other books I mentioned are: "What Your ____ Grader Needs to Know:
Fundamentals of a Good ---- Grade Education." They are edited by E.D. Hirsch,
Jr. Doubleday publisher. They are available in soft cover now. The Work Books
cover skills and the "What Your--" books cover content, substance.
Tim B.