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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 707652" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I pulled my son from a non-public school to finish high school in an independent learner's school where he could work at home and get credit work he completed in foreign countries, etc. <u>I had to sit on him to get anything done</u>. In fact, I am the one really who secured the high school diploma.</p><p></p><p>The only way I would consider it is if your step-son FIRST demonstrated his motivation and capacity in the setting in which he currently studies--his school now. That he demonstrate the willingness and ability to complete assigned work and accept the teacher's authority. Which is to say I would hold out as a "carrot", the online school, and insist that HE demonstrate first, the suitability of this option by his willingness to succeed where he is, and to accomplish such, first.</p><p> My concern would be first, he would do nothing in online school; and second, that he would see this as a reward of his misbehavior and accommodating it.</p><p></p><p>I can see the logic of streamlining the school experience to take away the confounds of "authority" and the noise and rigor of the social aspects of school. However I see that learning to co-exist with others, accept authority and to meet demands in a complex situation are as important or more important than the diploma.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 707652, member: 18958"] I pulled my son from a non-public school to finish high school in an independent learner's school where he could work at home and get credit work he completed in foreign countries, etc. [U]I had to sit on him to get anything done[/U]. In fact, I am the one really who secured the high school diploma. The only way I would consider it is if your step-son FIRST demonstrated his motivation and capacity in the setting in which he currently studies--his school now. That he demonstrate the willingness and ability to complete assigned work and accept the teacher's authority. Which is to say I would hold out as a "carrot", the online school, and insist that HE demonstrate first, the suitability of this option by his willingness to succeed where he is, and to accomplish such, first. My concern would be first, he would do nothing in online school; and second, that he would see this as a reward of his misbehavior and accommodating it. I can see the logic of streamlining the school experience to take away the confounds of "authority" and the noise and rigor of the social aspects of school. However I see that learning to co-exist with others, accept authority and to meet demands in a complex situation are as important or more important than the diploma. [/QUOTE]
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