Homeschooling

Question: Homeschooling through High School?

I would like to homeschool my daughter through high school. But what about college after she gets through with high school. she wants to be a vet. does anyone or has anyone homeschooled thier children through high school, and what curriculum have you used. and did you go through an accredited school?

Answer: Growing numbers of universities accept homeschoolers with or without official transcripts (check on individual colleges). See http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html and

http://www.homeschoolfriendlycolleges.com/index.html

Many homeschool high school programs give transcripts; costs vary! American School, Keystone, Seton, Conlara with CompuHigh, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, North Dakota Division of Independent Study, Univ. of Missouri, Oak Meadow, etc. (websearch this and request info. from your favorites).

Accredidation of homeschool programs ALSO varies. The "Big 6" (main) accreditors are: Middle States Association, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, North Central Assoc., North West Assoc., Sourthern Assoc., and Western Association. Other accredidations don't carry as much clout, but they do show the school has been examined.

State colleges tend to be pickier about accredidation of hs transcripts. Private schools have more flexibility. Some colleges already have a history of preferring home schoolers (see lists above)!

ALSO, if your daughter goes to a community college first (which saves you money), the 4 year school will not care what accredidation her high school transcript has, be it from you or from an expensive company. They'd look closely at her cc grades.

If she continues to be serious about veterinarian school, apprentice her to a local vet in high school (volunteer work). That gives her hands-on experience that will either "cure" her passion or give her something good to put on transcripts for college. She'd need classes heavy in science and math (check Apologia books for science, Teaching Textbooks for math)

Good luck!!

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Question: I'm going to have to face this battle. I need help!?

I'm homeschooling my children for a number of reasons. My oldest is 4 and we started homeschooling in may. Today was my sons' birthday party and everyone kept asking me where my daughter was going to school next year and I kept saying that I'm homeschooling her and I avoided the next few questions because it's really no one's business what I do. Well towards the end of the party it got around to my grandma and she asked me if I was crazy and I said no. She said that my daughter "Has to go to school!" and I said that she's 4 she can't start school yet anyway. My grandma said that she can go to Pre-K and I said no, she can't unless we pay for it because we're not low income and my daughter doesn't speak Spanish (law in texas). So now, I know that my mom is going to confront me about this. What do I tell my mom? I'm not sending my kids to school, I'm not going to change my mind. I don't think I should have to justify my decision.

Answer: Well, great, you're already an independent person, a mom who does what she thinks is best for her kids. Now you will have to pay for it: people will always question you for being different. This is a good opportunity for you to model respectful disagreement for your children.
I'm considering homeschooling, too, and I see there's a forum on here for it. You should check it out. Good luck.

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