We are currently in our third year of using The Potter's School for some of our more specialized classes for junior high and high school. They offer high quality classes with very professional teachers. So far we have utilized HTML, biology, chemistry, French 1, Latin 1 & 2, US history and advanced composition.
Here's how it works: Each week your student attends class for 90 minutes. In that class period, all students enrolled in that section gather together using a teleconferencing software. They interact with one another and the teacher. The lessons and assignments are presented to the class.
Each teacher determines their own schedule for work to be turned in. Once the teacher has graded the completed assignments, those grades are available for viewing by the students and parents on the Moodle website. You are able to see each graded piece of work as well as the cumulative grade for the class at any given moment.
The classes are rigourous and rewarding. For this mom, who can easily become overwhelmed by science, they are a very welcome tool in our homeschool.
The new list of classes for the 09-10 school year has been recently released and some of them look so exciting! It will be hard for us to choose which we want to pursue for the coming year. Turned Loose does know that he will take physics, anatomy and physiology (or advanced chemistry) and Latin 3. But, we are undecided on a fourth class. (I'm leaning toward forcing him to take a class on writing a research paper but we're still in negotiations.) Footloose will be taking jr. high French 2 and, possibly, one other class.
Each class we've taken has been worth every penny of tuition!
Registration is opening soon. It is definitely something worth considering if you are homeschooling a 7th-12th grader!
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Thanks for the review, Ronette. I have a friend who may be interested in the school soon. :)
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