Gigi,
We have taken a look at the schooling on DVD that BJU offers. He liked the history that BJU offered when we used it several years ago. When I made the decision to change curriculum, I made an error. My oldest was not doing well with BJU and so I found something else to use. I switched my son to the same curriculum as my daughter but he would have been better off remaining with BJU.
"In our state, as well as our neighbor state, a child may go to the county college at sixteen with only the parent's permission"
In our area, a student has to have a GED or have all the appropriate transcripts, scores and other records from a certified school. A person has to be eighteen to test for the GED, which has never made sense to me. So with a high school program that offers the record keeping bells and whistles, we hope to bypass some of the headache other homeschoolers are having here.
"We want to believe in the societal myth that only the talented will be able to succeed in particular areas"
It's not that we buy into any myths, his dreams include choices that have minimum academic, extra curricular and physical requirements just to apply for a possible appointment or opening. Those minimums are high and demanding.
His dreams are ambitious and admirable but he does realise they may not be so realistic. This goes back to what I said about his preferring to be denied than not try. He wants to get as close to his dream as he can so he can at least feel he did his very best. I suppose there is fulfillment in that for him.
