High School Correspondence Class

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Q. You oughta share with us the nature of the college correspondence courses. Some of us have kids in the high school years and we know first hand that it's a different ball of wax than teaching fonix to a 5 year old. Then what about college? At least I'm interested in what kind of correspondence course he is in.

A. We found it easier to teach our sons when they were older (we started home education in Jan 1992 when our two ds were 9 and 11 years old). By the time, they were 14 or 15, they taught themselves the "academic" subjects. We provided the resources and direction, and the "train them up in the way they should go" education. Our oldest, 18, has studied Biblical Greek (three 4 semester credit classes) and Hebrew (one 4 semester credit class) from Moody Bible Institute. He finished one of these classes each year for each of the last four years. Our youngest,16 , has been studying German using courses from UT-Austin's high school correspondence program. He is going to switch to Biblical Greek next month. Both of these have worked very well for us. When our oldest started, I found two schools that offered Biblical Greek through distance learning, Moody and Taylor University. I still remember the lady at Taylor who told me that there was no way that a 14 year old could possibly do their courses because they were too hard. Our oldest has never had a final grade less than 99 in any of the classes he took from Moody. Today, distance learning is growing rapidly. Any student who is well self-motivated and wants to obtain an accredited college degree at home can do so (depending on the major). One of John Bear's guides to distance learning is a great way to learn about (John Bear sold the rights to his "name" and his books to some company but that company is continuing to publish the books.) Our sons are going to major in piano performance which can't be done through distance learning so they are going to attend Bob Jones University. I expect our oldest to start next year with about 30 semester hours (the maximum accepted) through correspondence classes and CLEP tests, though.

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