I used A Beka extensively in grade and high school and don't recommend. The math curriculum is weak and the science books are written by young earth creationists. Their math books seriously don't teach set theory because it's an afront to God because apparently it's postmodern or something. My computer science degree disagrees but ok... Their ancient history gets a little iffy as well because the earth is only 6000 years old to them.
Most of the other stuff is average quality even if overly religious. Either way I'd recommend getting material that prioritizes education over hard-line religious dogma.
Their grammar books used to be pretty solid back in the day (like 1980's) but completely agree otherwise. We're homeschooling my son and using a mix of that time4learning site supplemented with tons of other stuff we've found in stores.
I used time4learning when we moved outside the US and the education was lacking in the country we were in. It was a good basic program. That and a few others helped him get a full undergrad scholarship followed by med school. I followed the Massachusetts state curriculum (at the time considered the best in the US) without all the indoctrination of sitting in a classroom there. This was 20 years ago. We lowered our standard of living for a few years so I could homeschool him, but it was worth it. Education and knowledge are power. Learning how to think for yourself is priceless.
Most of their content these days is just interfaced with edgenuity, which is what quite a lot of schools use for remote learning. It has it's quirks, but it's not too bad. There's another site they integrate with for science as well, can't remember what it is. I've heard T4L used to be lacking not too many years ago though. We supplement everything with extra handouts, some ixl books (and the site), heck even some youtube videos I've found. I've found nothing beats putting pen/pencil to paper to get things to sink in, especialy with math.
I used A Beka extensively in grade and high school and don't recommend. The math curriculum is weak and the science books are written by young earth creationists. Their math books seriously don't teach set theory because it's an afront to God because apparently it's postmodern or something. My computer science degree disagrees but ok... Their ancient history gets a little iffy as well because the earth is only 6000 years old to them.
Most of the other stuff is average quality even if overly religious. Either way I'd recommend getting material that prioritizes education over hard-line religious dogma.
Their grammar books used to be pretty solid back in the day (like 1980's) but completely agree otherwise. We're homeschooling my son and using a mix of that time4learning site supplemented with tons of other stuff we've found in stores.
I used time4learning when we moved outside the US and the education was lacking in the country we were in. It was a good basic program. That and a few others helped him get a full undergrad scholarship followed by med school. I followed the Massachusetts state curriculum (at the time considered the best in the US) without all the indoctrination of sitting in a classroom there. This was 20 years ago. We lowered our standard of living for a few years so I could homeschool him, but it was worth it. Education and knowledge are power. Learning how to think for yourself is priceless.
Most of their content these days is just interfaced with edgenuity, which is what quite a lot of schools use for remote learning. It has it's quirks, but it's not too bad. There's another site they integrate with for science as well, can't remember what it is. I've heard T4L used to be lacking not too many years ago though. We supplement everything with extra handouts, some ixl books (and the site), heck even some youtube videos I've found. I've found nothing beats putting pen/pencil to paper to get things to sink in, especialy with math.