Do parents or individuals who plan on homeschooling have to pass a test/curriculum to qualify them to homeschool a child?
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Do parents or individuals who plan on homeschooling have to pass a test/curriculum to qualify them to homeschool a child?
Indiana has just started that, online k-12 and they are advertising it like crazy on TV here in the last year or two, I wish it was around when I was in school. My cousin had a friend whom was a year behind him in school and when my cousin went to a JR college near by he saw this friend a few weeks after school started on campus with college level books under his arm. my cousin called to him ran up and asked why was he on campus carrying college books instead of being at their high school (knowing this kid should be a senior). It turns out he had some minor health problems that kept him out of school a lot but had doctor statements for each missed day, he told my cousin he was thrown out of school with like a week, week and a half to go and was not allowed to turn in the last few homework lessons they had for the year and not allowed to take finals so his parents where going to sign him up for night school (both over the summer and regualar school year) and summer school (regular daytime). the administration said even if he did summer school both da and night that summer and the next he could not graduate with his class he'd have to go to high school a fifth year even tho his grades where there and good enough that he shouldn't have to. the parents solution was for him to drop out take his GED go to college and graduate. They knew in their area you had virtually no chance at a job if you where a drop out or had a GED and that it was difficult for high school grads to find a job so that was the only reasonable option at that time they had. The school system just didn't like it that he was not in a chair for x many days a year so they could get money from the state for him, so they fought him dropping out (his parents threatened to sue and had a lawyer write a nasty letter to help them sign the papers the school should have legally let them to begin with). They had to have a lawyer threaten them again for trying to illegally prevent him from taking a GED test. And to top it off they tried to prevent him from going to college! the parents where on campus trying to get the last minute paperwork pushed through the system for that fall and they hit a snag when the college needed some forms from the school system above and beyond the GED and they got the correct person whom figured out the problem (aperantly this kid wasn't the first they tried to mess with). She simply called a friend in the college's legal department and told him she came across the same type problem shared the specifics and they threatened suit to the school system and told them if they didn't back off to try to match lawyers and money with their alumni. the school system backed off very fast and very quietly.Depending on the state there is also public online available through K12. ( in many states its free and its still accredited because its through the public school) K12 is Awesome in my personal opinion. Can do all sorts of AP classes. Tons of science and math. Even though its not free in my state its what we are using to homeschool in the future. My oldest will start taking high school classes now while he is in middle school so he can take AP maths. We are doing high school stuff for the most part already so I was thrilled with how many classes he could take.