Education:
The three most compelling reasons to buy AČ are education,
education and education. There is no reason to purchase a curriculum
unless your children will thrive academically on it. Many
of our users report that their children are advancing up to two
grade levels each and every year. Our methods teach children
how to learn, not just to memorize facts. Most of our materials
were first published long before political correctness was conceived
so they are untouched by current fads and revisionist history, etc.
Ease
of use: AČ is very easy to use. If you can navigate
a simple web site, you can use AČ Curriculum. AČ is a huge
web site resident on a CD so no internet connection is required.
Just click and print the text book. That is all there
is to using AČ, in fact many families assign the duties of printing
the materials to their children. Almost all the files on the
AČ CD are either html, text, or pdf files, the most common and easiest
to use file types on the web. Recently we called a family to provide
technical support. A delightful twelve year old young lady
explained the problem she was encountering, and followed the instructions
perfectly as we resolved the problem. This twelve year old
girl was using AČ to educate her younger brother while their single
mother was at work.
Organization:
Everything is laid out for you with a complete scope and sequence
providing a clear road map for your homeschool. Everything
is organized by grade level and by subject.
Value:
Homeschool curriculum is expensive. Curriculum costs
hundreds of dollars, per child, each and every year.
It can cost $300 for a single course for a year.
AČ covers kindergarten through 12th grade. It only costs
$99 and the whole family can use it for no additional cost. This
means that AČ only costs $7.70 per year. That cannot be beat.
Workload:
Many products require extensive work on the part of parents;
preparation, lesson plans, record keeping, correcting papers
and worksheets. Some of this is impossible to avoid; however,
AČ has minimized the work to an amazing degree without compromizing
your child's education. Using our methods and materials eliminates
the need for lesson plans. Correcting papers and worksheets
cannot be avoided; however, our methods almost (but not quite) make
this a thing of the past. We do this by making children responsible
for their own education.
Support:
When you buy AČ you are not on your own. We operate
a user group with hundreds of others who also use AČ. They
are wonderful. These good people are available to answer a
host of questions. Thousands of messages are in our archives,
available to be searched and referenced. You also get the
home phone number of the creator of AČ. When you require personal
technical support or just a little hand holding; it is as close
as your telephone.
Quality:
Many of our text books were in common usage in the 1800's.
In those days schools were run by parents, and schools had
very limited financial resources. Teachers frequently only
had an eighth grade education. The books they used had to
work and work well. The books had to be simple enough for
these teachers to use and the principles they taught had to be self
evident. Can old books possibly be as good as modern text
book? The answer is a resounding YES! Nouns and verbs
have not changed in several life times. Algebra and geometry are
unchanged. History books written close the the events are
frequently more accurate than those written years later.
Unique
Content: You may have heard that AČ contains many
public domain texts available for free on the Internet. This
is true. These free materials are not ready to print and may
require a high speed Internet connection to download. If these
materials are printed without being properly formatted they will
waste paper, creating unnecessary cost. The public domain
materials that form the core of AČ are formatted and ready
to print, saving you time and money. Many of the materials
contained in AČ are unique and are not public domain. Our
phonics materials, grammar game, math worksheet generator, math
text, and many other materials are either not public domain or are
not readily available elsewhere. AČ: often imitated,
but never duplicated.
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