Sol Bayn: Home schooling requires parents to take legal and financial responsibility for their child's education. They create the curriculum, purchase all necessary materials and provide instruction. It is legal in all 50 states but regulated differently in each. To find your state's law:homeschooling.gomilpitas.comuse the alphabet at the top to find your state. it is extremely important that parents follow the laws of their state. You apply for college the same way anyone else does. Pick your college choices, request a catalog and follow their directions for submitting an application. You will need a transcript of you classes, your ACT and SAT (and SAT II) tests, your community activities and a description of your career goals. You register for the tests, pay the fee and show up when they are administered. http://sat.collegeboard.org/register/?s_kwcid=TC|7...Online homeschooling isn't homeschooling at all. It is PUBLIC school, therefore it is legally regulated t! he same as any other public school in your state. When they first started they were marketed as homeschooling because homeschooling has a reputation of success, while public schools - well, you know their reputation. But legally they are public school. It works the same as any other public school but instead of sitting in a classroom you are sitting at home in front of a computer that monitors you. They have mixed results and in some states are failing. They are only operating in about 33 states currently. Here are a few articles. You can also google 'your state'' 'virtual schools' and 'investigation". If there is any state intervention it should pop up. Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schoolshttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/education/online...Online schools spend millions to attract students. Virtual, for-profit K-12 schools have spent millions in taxpayer dollars on advertising, an analysis shows.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/...Sta! tes Struggle To Keep Online Schools Accountablehttp://www.pews! tates.org/projects/stateline/headli... 2/15/13...Show more
Heidi Creselious: You must definitely have parent permission and willingness to have you home and help you when you need it. A "newer" option for homeschooling that might work well is the online public schools. We use K12 (www.k12.com) and there is another called Connections Academy. Check your state and see if that is an option. You have to follow all the same requirements as a public school and so "applying for college" won't be that much different than if you were graduating from a brick and mortar public school....Show more
Terresa Tsasie: The state you live in will determine the specific steps you have to take. One state makes you submit curriculum for review before it's "approved" (pretty much a formality) and you have to register with the state as a homeschooler. In my state, you send a letter to the school telling them to take you off the attendance rolls and you stop getting on the big yell! ow bus. That's it. My state demands that every homeschooling student cover a list of five specific "subjects" and sets a minimum number of hours you must homeschool, but we don't have to register. The state where one of my friends lives has no subject list or number of hours. So it really can vary pretty wildly. However, homeschooling is legal in all 50 states in the U.S., as long as you follow your state's laws. So that's Step #1, is to figure out those laws. Applying for college is a LOT like applying for college in more traditional schools. You create a transcript and take the ACT and/or SAT and submit an application. You'll be treated as an "out of state" student as far as admission (but not tuition!) goes. Online gets tricky, because most of it is run by the public schools, and they can be downright nasty about it...ours assigned the online kids TWICE as much work in order to convince them to go back to the brick-and-mortar school buildings. (Nice, huh?) You can access! the material on your own as an "independent" student, but it'll cost y! ou about $7K/year. Homeschooling 101: How does it work? Can I still go to college? http://www.wagnerweb.org/Homeschool_101...Show more
Boyce Gilhooly: States have different requirements for homeschooling .You need to find out what your state requirements are .
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