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My daughter will be 13 in August. Here was today's conversation after our history reading in unit 8 of CTC.

Her: Mom, we're going to flunk college.
Me: Why's that?
Her: Because all we study is Bible stuff, and that's not what college is about. We need to know more about wars and stuff.
Me: We discussed WW2 in Preparing.
Her: Yhea, for like 2 seconds.

Then later she expressed concern over the SATs.

I know she is only 12, but are any of her concerns valid?

When I went to college, I knew squat about history!!

When you RevtoRev and MTMM you will learn a ton about American History. And then WG will teach you about the world.

I wouldn't sweat it Most kids that do great on the SAT or the ACT usually do some type of prep. I just had a friend who's child is homeschooled take the ACT and he got a 30. When I was in high school, I went to a very prestigious school but it never really prepared me for college in the sense of what I learned. What prepared me most was learning HOW to learn. That I did get from that high school. HOD definitely teaches kids how to learn and how to manage themselves. I think she will be more than prepared. And there is a lot more to college than just history. I have a BBA and MSBA in accounting. I only took 3 history classes and 3 sciences classes. That is all! The rest were business classes. I did not take any business classes in High School and I was fine

At age almost 13 could she place higher in HOD? Does she need more challenge then she is getting in CTC?

The SAT didn't have any history on it when I took it. I don't know if it has changed or not. Perhaps she wants to know more about the things she doesn't know, and she is getting restless. Does she know the content in CTC, or is it new?

LovingJesus,
She knows a lot about the Bible. But CTC goes much more in depth and provides detail even she doesn't know. I think it sufficiently challenges her.

mrsrandolph wrote:LovingJesus,
She knows a lot about the Bible. But CTC goes much more in depth and provides detail even she doesn't know. I think it sufficiently challenges her.

My memory of the SAT is a lot of math & reading comprehension and it bearing much on college entrance and little on college success.

I hope that you can reassure her!

She is just getting started in the guides that go more in depth. CTC starts out heavily weighted towards bible, because it starts with the beginning of history. It will will move into Greece, Rome and Egypt. She will get plenty of in depth studies of all of history as she moves through CTC, RTR, REV to REV and MTMM. If she does any of the high school guides she will go even more in depth into the topics. Having said all that the most important things she needs to be able to do to be successful in college is to know how to read difficult passages and extract the important information from them, and once she has that information she needs to be able to formulate deeper thoughts about that information. HOD does an excellent job of teaching this. She will need to be able to work independently without someone spoon feeding her the information and if the guides are followed as written HOD does a great job of this as well. She will also need to write well on various topics, not just those that interest her, and HOD also does this with all the different writing programs that are used.

As far as the SAT goes the important things with that are reading comprehension of difficult passages, including primary source documents. HOD uses primary source documents and difficult passages. She will also need to know challenging vocabulary. She will get exposure to these words in HOD and then she can do a SAT prep guide to fully prepare. The other aspect of the SAT in math. Science is included on the ACT, but history is not.

Did I miss why she's in CTC at 13? Is she new to HOD and that's where she placed?

She is still 12. She will turn 13 in August. And if memory serves me correct, I think this mom wanted to run only two guides. I could be wrong so please correct me. The CTC age range is 9-11 with extensions for ages 12-13.

I just re-read that and she's not 13 yet.

The next question would be will she be done with CTC in the fall?

Either way, she'll be fine for college.

My husband is a college professor, and we both feel completely confident that learning with HOD will prepare both our kids for college. I hope that helps.

I haven't actually started HOD yet. Until now my children have been in public school. I have also been a substitute teacher in the school system across all of the age groups and what I have seen is that there is generally very little instruction during the courses. While I love technology, the emphasis has been so much on the technology that kids have missed out on some very important things. My nephew who is in High School has said that they have learned how to cheat more than anything. They air drop answers to each other and spend much of their time texting each other, listening to music or looking at things on the computer and clearing the screen when they see you walking close. While not all students are that way, it is the vast majority and from what I have witnessed, I truly believe that homeschool is the best option due to the one on one instruction and you have the ability to give them more instruction than the teachers are able to do with such a focus on teaching to the tests and having to deal with disruptions in class. From what I have viewed of the HOD programs, I feel confident that my children will flourish with this curriculum. The students really have more of an opportunity to absorb more of the information than public school students do. My husband is getting his Associates Degree in welding at the local community college here and his professors have stated that students graduating from local high schools are less prepared for college now than they were several years ago. I understand your daughter's concerns but I think that she will be well prepared.

Shayla