Re: make up credits

Hi Kris!

I have been educating my seven children at home for 21 years. Three have graduated and are now married, four are still plugging away at it at home.

To answer your question: if your son is still enrolled in the public school system, it is extremely likely that his school system will NOT accept any homeschooling credit. You may ask your high school principal or school superintendant to be sure. I live in the most tolerate home schooling state in the country (Texas) but there is still a major rift between the public schools and the home schools. Kansas has been quite unfriendly in the past. Google Home School Legal Defense Association and do a search for state requirements to find out what your state laws are now.

If your son is deficient in credits for graduation, you have a couple of alternatives through your son's school. Ask his academic counselor about the possibility of summer school classes. Another alternative might be to enroll him in a university's distance learning high school program. I know U of Nebraska, U of Oklahoma, and Texas Tech all have these (I listed these to keep you in the Big 12 :-D). These course might be acceptable for your high school since they are accredited programs. A third alternative might be to purchase a home schooling course in the subjects your son is lacking, do them over the summer, and make an appeal to your son's school authorities to take the departmental exam from the school when he finishes the course.

I have found that school authorities in general are quite amenable to working out solutions within the school system. They are not easy to work with when you start talking about pulling your child out of the system (they lose money).

Take these steps first. If no agreement can be reached after discussing these and possibly other options with your school counselor and principal, before the school year ends, then you have the option of having your son graduate a semester later, OR you can research over the summer about the prospect of trying to teach high school to your son.

Blessings,
-Donna Tweet