Riding is not a requirement at Grier and recreational riding is well supported. DD is introvert and probably didn’t like to be a recreational rider where there is a strong tight community of competition riders, nor she had time to ride more seriously.
My homeschooling was also very haphazard. I focused in making a good reader and logical thinker. I figured that standard math and writing can be taught when they were needed.
While it was difficult to jump to a structured high school life, more so as it is a BS. She now an extremely organized teen. The transition wasn’t easy and we needed to get help. But it is much better to have it in high school while her character was still developing, than during or after college.
Most BS we visited suggested her retaking core classes such as U.S. History or first year science so that she could build stronger relationship with her class. Although we didn’t mind doing it, Grier was one of very few who actively opposed the idea, and it worked out great. While most students still have to fulfill prerequisite for advanced classes, DD has seen exceptions made for her friend.
I am reviewing Grier’s course guide for this year. All students take their grade level English, in either College Prep (Regular) or Honors level, and History seems is fixed for 7-8th grades which are Western and Eastern. Math is purely based on prerequisite courses. Science for 7-8th is Life Science and Earth / Space. DD had prerequisites and started with AP Environmental Science in her 9th grade, although that wasn’t usual. Foreign language and most of art classes don’t seem to have grade level. She started with Honors Spanish III and had to quickly move to level II (They were speaking Spanish only!)
Grier is a very small school and there are even fewer 7th-8th graders. I don’t know the numbers, but surely fewer than JBS like Fay and North Country.