K-12 Curriculum

Joshua got a late start this year with school it was not until the beginning of this year did we find out the anxiety was so bad we could not get him into a school and everyone including the school thought it best to homeschool Joshua at this point.  We started with the K-12 program this program is a very good program if you are looking for a typical public school education but as we soon realized this was not a good fit for Joshua.  I will tell my experience with this program but do remember a lot of people really like this program and it does work for other children just not Joshua.  One nice thing about this program is that if you have a public school in your state that uses this program you can transfer schools and then the program is at no cost but you are under the public school system and requirements and this is the way we went.  One of the things I found odd was that they do have a K-12 community and there are group field trips but they cannot count towards any of your time requirements which is kind of funny considering the public schools have field trips during school time, this was a little frustrating to me also considering I had a son that was not getting their required time limits in so how did we have time for one of these field trips.  The public school had been advancing Joshua's grade even though he was not up to speed at the grade level as we have found out and since Joshua was advanced to 4th grade K-12 sent us 4th grade curriculum even though they had all his IEP's and STAR scores which all stated he was behind so take a child with ADHD and anxiety disorder and show him school work he dosen't understand and try to get him to do it.  We did explain this to the specials teacher but we were told to keep trying and of course as anyone knows who has worked with these type of children he was shuting down and I was going to lose every chance I had to get him to cooperate.  I kind of felt like I was banging my head against the wall like with the public school they weren't even going to do their own IEP until the middle of November, Joshua wasn't going to last that long and that's when I started to investigate our options on the internet then decided to go it on our own for Joshua's sake.  I have to say that I am also less stressed without having to meet all their requirments.  I do know that in our state this program had more then doubled in a year so our teacher was actually in another state until they could hire the teachers they needed I don't know if this is a factor in what happen with us or not but I couldn't keep going to find out.  I hate to turn everybody off to this program everybody has diffrenet situations and this program is well done computer and book but you need to keep in mind that this does follow a public school type format.
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