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wendi · #1 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 05:57 PM

Does anyone have any info on homeschooling a highschool student? I am trying to look at our options for michael, but i can't find many sites with info on homeschooling a highschool child.

Tabitha · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 11:07 PM

I've seen a lot of books, HSLDA has a special section on high school homeschooling... good place to start with ideas.

The best I've seen is decide with him what you want to do, where you want to go, set some goals. Look at requirements for colleges and set those as minimum goals. Decide how to meet those goals, what courses of study, community college classes or books or independent study or how you're going to learn something, then assign credits for each year and make sure you keep track of hours, grades, books read.

If not college then minimum graduation requirements for the local public school is a good place to start.

When I was first researching homeschooling it was all the same authors, all the time, but now there are a whole lot of books and resources. The biggest thing is to document, it can still be pretty relaxed compared to public school.

Keep a transcript and a portfolio and colleges will at least look.

I will keep looking for sites though.

Tabitha · #3 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 11:08 PM

HSLDA | Homeschooling Thru High School

Tabitha · #4 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 11:12 PM

Not anything we use but has some of the things I was talking about.

http://www.time4learning.com/homesch...h_school.shtml

heidi · #5 (**permalink**) 01-11-2010, 08:11 AM

For some reason I could not keep an Internet connection last night. I had posted a bunch of resources for you with HSDLA being the maine one. HSDLA is a great place to start.

Also you need to decide how you would like to home school. You can do it completely on your on or you can use a program like k12. There are some great catholic home school programs for high school. I like Mother of Divine Grace. Mother of Divine Grace School They have several different levels from where you do everything on your own, to where the child meets quartly or or montly or everytime an assignment is due with a certified teacher. I think it is kind of cool because you can have a teacher for one or all the subjects. They actually do not teach but do grade the papers. So you have a second set of eyes reviewing the essays etc. You actually get a high school diploma. My one good friend is a teacher there.
We did our thing with our oldest i.e. taylored a program that met his needs versus a program at K12 or like Mother of Divine Grace. The reason being is he was sick for 3 months and was really behind and I wanted to focus on the areas he needed help in the most. I have no idea what we will do with the other kids. We will play it by ear. It might be very different from one child to the next.

heidi · #6 (**permalink**) 01-11-2010, 08:14 AM

Maine Law Maine Homeschooling Laws - A to Z Home's Cool

home school groups in Maine Homeschool World: Maine Homeschool Organizations and Support Groups

this has a great place to look for how to start home schooling in Maine.
Homeschooling In Maine

Department of education with forms etc Maine Education - Home Instruction

wendi · #7 (**permalink**) 01-15-2010, 08:33 AM

Thank you all for the links and advice. I need to find time to sit down with Dan and Mike and decide where we want to go with this. His want is to be a surgeon, and obviously I can only do so much at home, and if his anxiety is that great, maybe we need to look at alternatives or we need to make the effort to get back into school. He is at a 11yr level which gives us a bit of wiggle room right now since he's only 15, and the school is willing to take his MEA's testing as proof of what he knows without actually being in the school, the problem is ...he missed most of last year, now almost all of this year... its hard to apply to college and show that you can do it, when you only attend 2 months of school a year. I home schooled Hailey tenmillion years ago, and as I recall maine was sticky about their homeschooling then, hopefully that has changed...thanks again!

heidi · #8 (**permalink**) 01-15-2010, 09:53 AM

Homeschooling is more mainstream then ever colleges now take it into account. It is nothing like it was even a decade ago to get into college if you were homeschooled.

Do not forget you can also go the route of him getting his GED when he is 16 and going starting out at a community college. I know a lot of PhDs who started out this way. It looks like in Maine if you are under the age of 18 you need a parent to sign off and a court order. The court order looks like it is no big deal just routine.

wendi · #9 (**permalink**) 01-15-2010, 12:45 PM

I am not so worried about doing the homeschooling for highschool, but if he wants to be a surgeon at some point he IS gonna have to travel outside this house....So were just wondering which end to push right now..to push him to follow his dreams and realize he is gonna have to step outside the front door to get there, or ....to keep him comfy and maybe settle for less at this point.

clarification: I am in no way saying that homeschooling is setteling for less.....I'm just saying that since he's been little all he's talked about is being a surgeon, so if he didn't follow through on that I would feel he would be settleing.

heidi · #10 (**permalink**) 01-15-2010, 03:35 PM

I understand what you mean Wendi.

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