Challenge* How's it going?? (Classical Conversations)

[NayfiesMama]

Hi There,

Next year, I'm planning on my daughter doing Challenge A, Veritas Press' Omnibus II or a local Charter, Classical School.

SO, as far as Challenge, what are you liking? Not liking? What level are your students at? What do you wish you had down more preparation for? I'm wondering what I will wish I had taught her...

Any hints about Challenge?

Feel Free to pm me if you don't want to publicly post.

Carrie:-)

[GVA]

Our Challenge A Director also teaches for Veritas Press, and I've discussed the ins and outs of that with her too. She is very creative and uses a lot of variety in how she teaches. We're very happy with Challenge A, and hope to continue with Challenge as long as possible. Veritas Press is my fall-back if that changes. The Challenge A class at our campus is very orderly and she has high expectations. My kid had 3 years of Foundations including 2 of Essentials, and he was completely ready even though he's the second youngest in the class. It's a lot of work for him, but nothing is overly hard.

A friend at another campus with another tutor is less happy than I am because the tutor is struggling with classroom management and isn't providing much guidance on some of the assignments.

They would like for me to do Challenge I next year, but there's a lot of factors that have to come into place for that to happen. We'll see...

[Heather in VA]

We tried Challenge last year. My daughter was in 8th and was planning on Challenge B with Latin done with Challenge A since she had quite a bit of Latin already.

My first recommendation would be to check out the teacher. As with anything else, the teacher is a fundamental factor to how it turns out. The Challenge B teacher was a great lady but was used to younger children so consequently wasn't as familiar with what needed to be required of kids in their last year before high school. There has been some dispute as to whether or not the CC organization requires a Challenge teacher to have (or have had in the past) students of that age or older. Our Challenge B teacher oldest child was in 6th (or maybe 5th I can't remember) but she didn't have jr or sr highers. So if it's a policy, it's not always actually done.

Our Challenge A teacher had alot of high school experience so was much more in line with her expectations. I tried to move my dd into Challenge A fully but it was full. Even still, what I came out of Challenge realizing was that for me, it is just not a rigorous enough program and the credits they give are IMHO too generous for the work done.

We are using Omnibus this year - we've used parts before but this is the first time we've done it fully - and I am very pleased.

Heather

[momee]

"Even still, what I came out of Challenge realizing was that for me, it is just not a rigorous enough program and the credits they give are IMHO too generous for the work done."

I'm confused. Would you mind giving me a bit more info about this statement. We're looking at doing CC in the fall. Challenge A.
Thanks.

Maybe you can answer this also. What do they do for history? I see 6 subjects but not one for history.