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Posted by Kelli in TN on 6:16 Jan 11
She wishes to be a political science major in college. She does not know for sure what she wants to do after graduation, only that she wants to work in something political or governmental. I figure this is okay.
The girl loves politics. She loves history. She loves to argue politics.
We were doing the four year chronological history ala WTM. She is about to start the American Revolution next week. We homeschool year round and she is a bright girl, so it is not a stretch to think she could finish modernity by the end of summer if she tried.
I was thinking that perhaps I would just have her finish up history this summer and then let her have next year to just splash and dive and swim around in the subject matter that she loves the most.
I have never been a person who followed the theory of "delight-directed learning", but I am seriously thinking of doing so with her.
She will have completed 3 or 4 (depending on which way I go here) years of world history, 1 year of American history (concurrently with the world history but she is using an American history textbook and extra readings, it is plenty for a credit). She has 3 lab sciences and I am not going to make her do another.
Really, we could do her pre-calc and keep wrestling with Mr. Wheelock's tome, and other than that I could let her read, study, write, research political science all year long and I think her transcript would look fine.
Is this nuts?