Advice on senior year plans for S24 (homeschooled, DE vs online APs)

The teaching at the HS isn’t great and the disciplinary scene is pretty rough. Overall, it doesn’t seem like the educational benefits would outweigh the drawbacks of such a dramatic change in routine and social experience for one year. (He has friends and social outlets now, but HS is its own unique thing, especially coming in as a senior. He’ll adjust to college, but that will be different from HS.)

After reading everyone’s advice, I’m looking into our closest state university to see if they will do dual enrollment. I tried to reach out to them last year for S23, and they never got back to me. But I’m starting earlier for S24 and I will be more persistent. Our closest UMass also says they do DE so I’m going to look into that (although it is more expensive and a bit further drive than either the state university or the community college).

My current thought is to have him take Engineering Physics 1 & 2 and Calc 2 & 3 in person at whichever of the schools works out. And then, depending on the schedule and what sparks his interest and the cost, have him do his ELA/SS/elective classes either DE or online (APs if appropriate).

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