Recommended Classes for Homeschoolers and Homeschooling Parents, Both Traditional and Online.

Abacus recommends these classes offered by Abacus, EIE, and various other organizations and individuals to homeschoolers in the Los Angeles area. Unless otherwise noted, courses are offered in the
Excellence in Education Resource Center,
2640 S. Myrtle Ave.
Monrovia, CA 91016,
(626) 821-0025.
Many classes are open-enrollment and ongoing.
Contact the instructor for details.
For the benefit of homeschoolers unable to attend classroom sessions, some courses are offered online and others may be offered online in response to demand. Please contact the instructor for more details.

Homeschooling in Action

Homeschooling is for many, more than just a choice -- it is a necessity. Any reasonably intelligent individual (able to pick up a book and study a subject) who has seen a public school classroom in action must conclude, as we and many others have, that the time/learning ratio common in the public schools is only a tiny fraction of that possible in an educationally benign environment. However, not all parents feel confident about teaching all subjects to their children. The homeschooling classes here listed, offer an excellent alternative by providing homeschooling children with access to a more diverse group of highly qualified intellectual role models than commonly found in either traditional school or purely homeschool environments. All of the major core subjects are covered, including English through college entrance level and math through calculus.

Abacus-es has been providing educational resources for many years including some of the courses for homeschoolers at Excellence in Education, the definitive homeschool resource center in Monrovia, California. All of our classes are offered in the homeschooling spirit. Though our teachers are credentialed with many years of public school classroom experience, we are accutely aware of the shortcomings inherent in traditional schooling methods and strive to provide a highly flexible and inspiring alternative learning environment. We are not simply unaccredited, we are proudly unaccredited as accreditation tends more to assure conformity than scholarship.

Featured Classes:

College Preparatory English Usage

Traditional classroom course offered on the EIE campus, Monrovia, CA 2640 S. Myrtle Ave. Monrovia, CA 91016, (626) 821-0025.
meets Tuesdays 12:30 - 2:00 P.M. with online support. Taught by the author of SAT Practice: The New Verbal Section, College preparatory English Usage covers English vocabulary, usage, comprehension, grammar and composition. Please see our Writing Skills Playsheets section for a taste of class content and style. Course includes text, extensive resources, personal instructor attention, graded compositions, moderated discussion forums and chatrooms, quizzes, and a certificate upon successful completion.

Open enrollment. Contact the instructor to reserve space: eclass@abacus-es.com (or call: (626) 798-9657).

Music Theory: Keyboard Improvisation

Open enrollment.

Traditional classroom course offered on the EIE campus, Monrovia, CA 2640 S. Myrtle Ave. Monrovia, CA 91016, (626) 821-0025.
Tuesdays 2:30 - 4:00 P.M.Learn to play on the keyboard whatever music you hear or imagine. We learn to write and read music too, but do not limit ourselves to reading what others have written. This class offers a sound foundation in music theory and composition taught in the homeschool spirit through hands-on keyboard experience.
Open enrollment. Contact the instructor to reserve space: eclass@abacus-es.com (or call: (626) 797-7201).
Bring an electronic keyboard, your ears, and imagination.

College Preparatory English Usage (Online course)

Now Enrolling: College Preparatory English Usage

Runs indefinitely. Eight weeks. $175.00.

Taught by the author of SAT Practice: The New Verbal Section, College preparatory English Usage covers English vocabulary, usage, comprehension, grammar and composition. Please see our Writing Skills Playsheets section for a taste of class content and style. Course includes text, extensive resources, personal instructor attention, graded compositions, moderated discussion forums and chatrooms, quizzes, and a certificate upon successful completion.

Scholarship Available! A limited number of students will be invited to take the College Preparatory English Usage Class under full scholarship. To be considered for this program, write us a short (200 word) essay explaining your reasons for wanting to study English usage. Preference will be given to homeschoolers and international students.

Homeschooling in Action

I can read French as easily as English; and under pressure of necessity I can turn to account some scraps of German and a little operatic Italian; but these I was never taught at school. Instead, I was taught lying, dishonorable submission to tyranny, dirty stories, a blasphemous habit of treating love and maternity as obscene jokes, hopelessness, evasion, derision, cowardice, and all the blackguard's shifts by which the coward intimidates other cowards. And if I had been a boarder at an English public school instead of a day boy at an Irish one, I might have had to add to these, deeper shames still..
- George Bernard Shaw

Homeschooling in Action

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
-Isaac Asimov

Homeschooling in Action

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
- George Bernard Shaw

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