The following are 'snippets' from Shirley s new teaching tape entitled Homeschooling the High Schooler . When a student is completing 10th grade or beginning 11th grade, the parent should think about the possibility of the next year using either a traditional 11th grade program or accelerating the program because the student wants to finish the academic work one year early. In a traditional school system especially, acceleration is not often considered. I know acceleration works, but we do it our way. The student must complete our program in our time schedule.
Acceleration means completing the high school years earlier than tradition dictates.
It is understandably a very scary concept to parents because they do not want their children to leave. The children, now young adults, are completing a chapter in their family book . The student is not saying that he wants to finish school early because he does not like his parents or homelife. He has probably experienced jobs and situations that the more traditional student has not been given the time to try. I have also noticed that overall, girls want to accelerate their education sooner than boys.