Who gives a crap if he can afford this and that. The guy works sheesh give him a break we don't know what type of work he has to deal with what crap he gets everyday, I say the kid gets himself a small part time job pay help for faster internet or get his own :/ teaches responsibility as well he'll learn to pay a bill.

Pssh, I have a gaming household and I know that most the time the speed of Internet and whatnot is highly important so you consider everything (as I consider the use of laptops) and I get the right amount running so everyone can comfortably connect to the wifi. If he agreed to let his kid use it for school he should have known there would be a conflict in having more than one device connected to their shitty Internet. Thank you and goodnight.

Oh, as far as the kid getting a job? Can't a kid focus on school without worrying about paying for Internet to do school? Why should parents push their responsibility off on their kids? and saying it builds character or whatever is bull.

Its just Internet it's not the whole house bills

#80 I went to public school and was still a bit of a loner.

#85 I think OP means online homeschooling for high school rather than an online university.

Even worse. You get a high school "diploma" that no real university will accept. Plus, I consider myself to be reasonably smart - but I would not homeschool my kid. My math is OK but not great. I forgot why "the great gatsby" is a classic. If my kid got interested in say chemistry I would quickly be lost. In a real school your math teacher has a math degree, your literature teacher has a home full of books and a degree in literature, your science teacher is a geek, and so on.