I have a high schooler! I'm not going to lie, it made me a little anxious this year. Peter has to earn credits. We can't just say, oh well, we are going to drop that and switch to something new. I mean, we can if we really have to, but he does need to earn a certain amount of credits.
After I did a ton of research, we had a working lunch date in May of last year where I presented his options, answered his questions, and hammered out his first year of high school plans. And, although we did have to make some changes to our plans, everything has worked out very well.
Probably, the hardest part was that he had more hours of work per day than he was used to, but he adjusted to it and has grown up quite a bit this year. Here is a run down of his 9th grade coursework and credits.