K12 Curriculum...Do you grade your child's work or is that part of the service?

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Thanks!

[Night Elf]

I imagine it will be different between direct consumers and charter schools.

There are online assessments in many, many lessons to make sure the student is understanding the material. There are answer keys for all the worksheets. But there is no teacher service with K12 (for direct consumers) that look at your child's work. It's all up to the parent.

[Pamela H in Texas]

Well, it's mixed.

For example, say my son is doing Earth Science. At the end of the lesson, he does a lesson assessment. The computer asks him 10 questions (for example) and he's to answer two essay questions. The computer grades the 10 questions and then asks me if he answered the two essay questions correctly (giving me a guideline of what he should have answered. Some are more involved than others, but I have both the answer sheet and the computer's guidance to help). Then the computer gives a numerical grade. Labs are graded much the same way as essay questions.

So the computer doesn't do it all independently, but it does A LOT of it. I can usually grade my son's work in just a few minutes per day. Rarely is there any real length of time to it.

The only thing that takes considerably more effort is the composition. Again though the program helps each step of the way.

This year has been EXTREMELY tough on us due to first my daughter's hospitalization and illness, then mine, and now another episode last week. If it wasn't for this program, my son would have been greatly neglected. I'm so thankful for the K12 curriculum (we're doing it through TXVA).

I never thought I'd use a full curriculum, especially not with someone's oversight (I have put our homeschooling program together for both kids since my oldest with little). But this has been an awesome opportunity for our family, for my son. He has gone from thinking he's stupid to feeling capable. He's gone from struggling to on grade level. He's enjoying school and hopes TXVA adds high school by Fall 2009. We are VERY pleased

I'd be glad to answer a few more questions if it would help.

Pamela

[Jenny in Atl]

I imagine it will be different between direct consumers and charter schools.

There are online assessments in many, many lessons to make sure the student is understanding the material. There are answer keys for all the worksheets. But there is no teacher service with K12 (for direct consumers) that look at your child's work. It's all up to the parent.

About how much does k12 run... or should I not ask. :confused:

[Pamela H in Texas]

depends....

I use a va so it's free (include computer, microscope, art materials, science lab materials, etc). Well, free is an overstatment. Everyone in the state pays school taxes :)

High school is $350 per class per semester <gasp!>
For K-8, a year of 6 courses is $94/month or $29/course/student/mo

HTHs,
Pamela