Our daughter’s first year of High School went pretty well for her, but the local public school didn’t fare so well. Once I realized that all of my hassles were basically trying to explain things to these people, and trying to convince them that I really knew better than they did about what she needed, I realized we were going to have to make a change. They kept insisting that the way to achieve a better level of organization for her was to dumb down her classes considerably. I disagreed, and so did my daughter, who thought most of her classes were deadly boring. This is the sort of child who does extra homework because she thinks it is fun and interesting. I could not convince them that Asperger’s is not synonymous with retardation. So we started looking around at our options for this year, and we found the Ohio Virtual Academy. It sounds very interesting to us. It looks like she will be able to move at her own pace (lightning speed) and also be able to take higher level honors and AP classes. The curriculum looks challenging instead of dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, and she will no longer need to wait for her classmates to catch up. We are looking forward to it. I had looked on homeschooling with fear and dread, but the thought of not having to explain anything to a recalcitrant principal this year seems just like paradise. We might have time to go like, rock climbing or something: