Weekly Poll: Do you plan on homeschooling through high school?

[mommykicksbutt]

Absolutely we are homeschooling high school! We homeschooled DD for a portion of her high school years with joint enrollment (ps and hs), some classes she took at ps, the rest she did at home. With DS he is 100% hs. He is 13 and already has earned 1.5 Carnegie Units toward high school. DS has zero interest in going to a brick and mortar school again and plans on graduating high school before his brick and mortar peers and to do so with college credits as well.

Oh, and as for homeschooling college, it's doable! DD went to the local community college then transfer to a University in an other state and earned her BA. She never traveled to the university, she never step foot into an upper division class! All of her course work (after CC) was done from home and submitted on-line. She graduated ahead of her class mates because the program was accelerated.

Technically, a student can graduate with a bachelors without ever stepping foot in a classroom. The student would self study to arm themselves with knowledge in preparation for examination at the college level. It is call CLEP, DANTES (or DSST), Excelsior College exams, TECEPs, (and any other university's credit by examination program). College credit is earned by examination, then transferred to one of the big 3 (Excelsior, Thomas Edison, or Charter Oaks), then apply to graduate and get the sheep skin. http://www.bain4weeks.com/ has more info on this.

DS plans on taking CLEPs after completion of course studies. He asked why he would have to do Algebra twice? Algebra for high school is no different in content from college algebra so why not get the college credit after studying it for high school. Likewise for biology, world history, American history, etc... (smart kid for thinking of this!)

[Sarbare0704]

I guess I don't know for sure being I'm just starting out with a 4 year old but so far I don't have a reason not to. As long as this works for us is how long we do it. Although I do wonder since she is starting her school "career" at home if switching will be harder for her.

[Snoopy]

Oh, and as for homeschooling college, it's doable!

Thanks for the info, I'll have to save it to look at it when I'm a little less tired. Noah will be happy to hear this!

[paganmomblog]

I would love to say that we will through High School but things could change later on.

[GothicGyrl]

It's a lifestyle now. I've already graduated one through homeschool high school and got another one starting 9th grade. So yes, it will be done all the way through. I honestly wouldn't know what to do with myself otherwise and am panicking (seriously! LOL) right now as to what I'm going to do with myself when this one is done.

[KrysWalker]

I put "not sure" but only because my husband wants them to go to high school and I want it to be their choice - my children are so young it's no point in arguing about it yet (3yrs, 7mos, and due Dec. ). I hate the high school in this area so part of it would involve whether or not we can find a private school in our price range. But if they wanted to continue homeschooling or do a running start type program at the college instead, I'd like for it to be their choice.