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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceHome Schooling · 10 years ago

Could I start homeschool..........?

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Could I be homeschooled?

School starts in less than a month an I really dislike school. My mom ( hopefully) might let me get homeschooled due to the things that had occured last year. I was wondering if she could pull me out of school before school starts or probably in the beginning of the 2nd semester?

Update:

Also how do colleges get the other credits from homeschool if I decide to learn with textbooks?

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  • 10 years ago
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    Yep, You can withdraw from you school at any time, now mid-year, whenever. If you are talking about actual homeschooling, all you and your mom need to do is follow the homeschool laws. Check them out in your state: http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp

    For most states you start by submitting a letter of intent from your Mom to the school and/or superintendent stating she is withdrawing you to homeschool. She will need to include your name, address, grade, DOB and depending upon your state laws, she may need to include the names of books/curriculum and a scope and sequence of the curriculum ( a photocopy of the book's table of contents works great for this).

    If by homeschooling you mean enrolling in an online public, charter, or private school, you are not truly homeschooling but will be transferring from one school to another. Your new school will request your school records and you won't fall under the homeschool laws. Admission to the new school will depend upon the new school's regulations. So you would have to check with them.

    As an independent homeschooler, your Mom would be in charge of grading your work and maintaining those grades. She can do it manually, in a lesson book available at staples, and other school supplies stores. Or to make life easier, she can purchase a homeschool record keeper.

    There are multiple options out there

    Edu-Track: http://www.contechsolutions.net/products/eths_pc/

    Homeschool Tracker: http://www.homeschooltracker.com/tracker_plus.aspx

    Homeschool Reporting Online: https://www.homeschoolreporting.com/

    There programs allow your parents to enter your grades and create a transcript for college for you.

    When you're ready to go to college, Mom prints and signs the transcript for your homes school work and you request your old high school to send in your transcripts from them.

    Mom can also create a transcript and calculate your homeschool GPA using one of these templates if you don't want to use one of the record keeping programs:

    http://www.hslda.org/highschool/academics.asp#tran...

    Good Luck

    Source(s): 17 years homeschooling Mom
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    You can be homeschooled. It mostly depends on your mom; she can make the choice to go to the school and withdraw you and register you as a homeschool student. It's actually pretty much just a matter of signing the withdrawal form at your school. It would be hard at this point to get the materials, however, if you're learning with traditional textbooks. There are online high schools, though, and sites where you can get the materials online. There's one site called freeworldu.com that uses a bit of a different format for learning, but it's free or very low cost to register. And, normally the way that colleges get your credits is because when you're homeschooled, your parents keep and grade your assignments pretty much like regular school, either in a grade book or on a computer. It is very important that you are getting grades though, whether from your parents or an online school, because the government can audit those grades to make sure that you're actually being homeschooled and not just not going to school. But, as long as you're doing real work, there'd be no problem. Oh, and you can get homeschooled for the second semester just the same way; just have her go down and withdraw you for then if she agrees to it. I was homeschooled for a few years and I really loved it, so good luck!

    Source(s): personal experience
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Yes, I am 15 and I am homeschooled actually. I'v been 2 public school most my life and I do not like it either. I went like half the year and then mom let me drop out so I could do homeschooling. It's not like regular school . You can pick your own hours of the day to actually do your work and do not have to do school work the same as public school its just like 4 months in a year or so. I'v really enjoyed it. And you actually learn more than in public school.

    Source(s): From 2 years of experience :)
  • 10 years ago

    Do school online they have that now its called k12 check it out , Google it !! They say it really nice and better than home school :-)

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    You could just go to a different school.

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