Resources for High School Math At Home

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by DaPointIsDaBomb

Homeschoolers all get As because the teacher is their parents and they won't fail them.

Not at all true. When a course is outsourced (ALEKS, distance learning, college course, etc.) we assign the same grade as the original course, and use a 90%, 80%, 70%, 60% grading scale for sources that assign percentages rather than letter grades.

I think the lowest grade we've assigned in home school is a C. But my children know I wouldn't be any slower to assign a D or F to them than I ever was when I was a public school teacher.

When I taught in the community college, my rate of assigning Ds and Fs was usually between 10% and 30%, with the higher failure rates for the harder courses.

At the Air Force Academy, I probably recommended more cadets for disenrollment for academic reasons than any other faculty member there.

My teens know there is no one to go whine to if their parents assign a failing grade.