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Thank you Ryan! Just curious to what happens to unschoolers in the futureā¦graduate?? GED??
In TX they graduate like everyone else. But depends on your stateā¦but itās the same as homeschoolersā¦if you have requirements to something to turn in then you just adapt to your needs.
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I am so sorry you are going through this. 
I know you are doing an online school? I know that my kids hated it. They didnāt want to try either. When I quit the online school I tried really hard to find curriculum that they would enjoy. It has taken a lot of work and a lot of false steps.
The K12 program was just too much - it wasnāt fun for anyone. Could it just be that he doesnāt like the curriculum? Could it just be too much?
If at all possible - try and make the curriculum your own. Skip things that you can skip. Donāt try to do everything in the lesson. (Dare I say: Donāt worry about their āassessments?ā) Or even, find out what is on the assessment - and teach him that in his own way. A way he enjoys.
(For example: (this is for my 1st grader but itās just an example lol so bear with me 
) In science he has to know what the three states of matter are: solid, liquid, gas. He has to know what causes them to change the state of matter (hot or cold) OK, so instead of spending 1/2 an hour reading their online science lesson - I am going to walk around outside and inside and find examples of solids, liquids, and gases. Then we will do the experiment they have: changing ice-cubes to water, water to ice-cubes, and water to gas by boiling it. Done and done. He enjoyed science, he learned - but it wasnāt sitting on the computer all day.)
I know you said you didnāt want to stick with it foreverā¦ and soā¦ find your own curriculum - one that he enjoys, and like was mentioned beforeā¦ maybe unschooling would work best.
Youāll be in my thoughts! Best wishes!
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PS - I hated the online assessments: as I thought most were unfair. So, I tried to teach what they needed to know. And if my child didnāt understand what they were asking - I had no problem with helping them on the assessments. If I KNEW they knew the material - then I didnāt worry about the assessments as much. We also went to a more notebooking style - they created their own books for each unit. Again, - if they understood the material - I didnāt worry about the assessments as much.
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Thank you The online schooling is no different from the public school systemā¦just different location 
He didnāt like school nor does he like it here at home. Iāve actually started looking into the āunschoolingā approachā¦all the articles Iāve read so far describe my son to a āTāā¦scaryā¦because Iām too into the system way :-/ I have a friend coming over Monday to do a lesson with him so she can get a feel for how he learns or if he might just happen to be an unschooling kind of learnerā¦I can say now I could never do RADICAL unschoolingā¦but perhaps some unschooling with a sprinkle of academics and REAL LIFE responsibility everyday!! I just told him todayā¦youāre either going to work hard mentally(academics) or physically(real life stuff)ā¦not just sit around But still lots to think and considerā¦
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