HS help for a senior in high school

[thursday2]

I am a private tutor - I have a few "regular" home school students (for want of a better term) and one homeschooler for which I am his only teacher. He was sort of expelled from his high school late in his junior year for a disciplinary issue, and the school agreed to let him be home schooled for the remainder of the year.

He has one course from 10th grade he needs to make up this summer, and his parents want for me to enroll him in an accredited online home school program and teach him the course. They are also seriously considering having me home school him for his senior year. Again, they want him enrolled in an accredited school so that he can receive a diploma and hopefully go on to college.

I'm familiar with a lot of the accredited online schools, but the issue with this particular child is that he is NOT a traditional homeschooler - he is horribly motivated, has severe ADD, has no interest in learning on his own, etc. The one-on-one of home schooling seems to have benefited him, but most of the online programs I'm familiar with or can find require him to log in to the computer every morning (he's been banned from computer use for his disciplinary issues) and/or have strict curricula. His parents and I both were hoping to arrange a more personalized program for him to try to take advantage of the freedom home schooling allows.

Does anyone have any recommendations of where to turn next? (We're in CA, if it matters.) Any accredited schools that allow you to create your own curriculum and work with a teacher rather than go exclusively through their people?

[SagMom]

Originally Posted by thursday2

Any accredited schools that allow you to create your own curriculum and work with a teacher rather than go exclusively through their people?

I have friends who have used and liked Clonlara. It sounds to me like what you're looking for. http://clonlara.org/secondary

[34me]

We have used BYU which wouldn't give you a "diploma" but would give you a transcript and sylabus that people understand from a school people have heard of.

[caefi]

accredation means very little, in the real life application of it.

I don't know what state you are in and each state has their own rules about it. But, here, the parents just give the child a diploma. There has only been one time in my entire life I have been asked to see my high school diploma. Transcripts, yes. Diploma, no. You make a name for your homeschool and that is where the child graduates from.

What benefit do the parents think they are getting because a school offers the label of "accredited"?

this article talks about accredation: http://www.oklahomahomeschool.com/highsch.html
here's another resource about accredited homeschooling: http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/...reditation.htm

[eclipse]

Where in California? Some parts of California have great homeschool charters that you can enroll with that will help you choose curriculum (and provide it, and sometimes special order things that they don't usually use). If one of those schools graduates him, he will have a diploma (though I believe in CA there's a HS exit exam that also needs to be passed). It might be too late to enroll with one of them for this year, but if he homeschools for his senior year, it might be possible to make up the class simultanously. Most of these schools also provide monthly funds for enrichment activities, the use of which could motivate an otherwise unmotivated kid (like if he wants to learn to play the guitar, or do a football clinic, or something like that - the funds would cover the cost of that sort of thing, and his parents could make the use of the funds contingent on putting in some effort, etc). If you have something like that in your area, the parents might consider it.