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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, what's your other option?  Would you homeschool? Could you get him into a private school somewhere?

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I homeschooled my child last year and it was great. I kept my child socially connected with positive friends and activities. There is a homeschooling page on dcum as well as lots on Facebook like SEA (secular, eclectic, academic). What are your means like? DC is great about homeschooling in one regard - very hands off. However, they don't provide resources- other states do. We used the library a LOT.[/quote]

NP. What is your feeling about homeschooling in HS and then college? I am interested in doing longterm homeschooling but worried it might make the college application process more difficult (no GPA, no recs from teachers, etc.).

Also, beyond activities, do homeschooling resources in DC enable you to find other homeschooling families and do some joint coursework? I know this is possible at the elementary level, but I worry there are not enough homeschooling high schoolers in the area to do something similar at this level. It would be nice to be able to pool resources for science learning, for instance.[/quote]

My parents pulled me out of 10th grade in my public school, where  I was miserable, homeschooling me through a mail-in program pre-Internet for the spring semester.  For junior year,  I went away as an exchange student to Europe before returning to the US to finish HS at a different public school.  I did HS over 5 years.  Things worked out very well, and I went on to an Ivy for college, then a PhD at a different Ivy.

In your shoes, PP,  I'd get the kid away from a toxic Wilson scene without looking back, regardless of how, and where, the rest of HS pans out.[/quote]

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