im a 16 year old teenage and im in public school

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im a 16 year old teenage and im in public school

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Re: im a 16 year old teenage and im in public school

Postby Ramona » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:52 pm

Are you in the US? Some states require the parents to be the teachers, others do not. There are kids who are homeschooled by other adults--relatives, other homeschoolers in town, etc.

Google "homeschool in" your town, county, and state and you will probably find some support groups near you who you and your parents could meet in person.

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Postby Theodore » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:58 pm

You're high-school age, so for you it's just a matter of looking up the courses required for high school graduation in your state (or asking the guidance counselor at your school), downloading syllabuses online (Google around, lots of schools and colleges put them out there), buying or borrowing the necessary textbooks, doing the work, and testing out of those subjects with AP, CLEP, or DSST. CLEP is best if available, since it's done electronically now and you don't have to write out your answers by hand and fill in the little circles (I hate doing that). If you feel you can't handle a subject on your own, like for instance lab science, you can take that particular course at your local community college, which will have a nicer atmophere and hopefully not stress you so much. Even if it does stress you, you'd only have to be there a few times a week for few hours, not 7+ hours 5 days a week.

Bottom line, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to study from home and do a good job, with very little help from your parents.

EDIT: Though you'll still need them to supervise to the extent of making sure you fulfill the legal requirements for homeschooling in your state. What state are you in?

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Postby annonymous03 » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:08 pm

im in the state of new york..

another question:
when i go to college will it still say that i graduated highschool even if im pretty much teaching myself at home over the internet?? and will i have a transcript to give the colleges ?

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Postby Theodore » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:40 pm

You will be a high school graduate if you have either passed the 5 Regents examinations, or completed 24 semester hours in an approved plan (IHP - Individualized Home Instruction Plan) that includes the required subjects for high school graduation in New York.

As far as colleges are concerned, you will be backing up your coursework with as many test scores as possible in nationally standardized tests, plus a portfolio of work for anything you don't test out of. Colleges like homeschoolers, you should have no trouble with them if you can make it through the New York regulations.

Some links on the legalities:
http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=NY
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/nonpub/homeinstruction.html

New York is definitely one of the more restrictive states, with a high required attendance (990 hours per year), a list of required subjects, annual notice / IEP, recordkeeping, and yearly testing, but on the plus side, there are no teacher requirements so long as the regulations are fulfilled. You can handle the recordkeeping and testing yourself, and the hours shouldn't be a huge problem (roughly 3.8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 52 weeks per year, or however you want to do them - but almost anything you do can be counted as education), so all your parents would have to do is take care of filing the letter of intent / IEP yearly.

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Postby Morgan » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:02 pm

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
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I know what you mean!

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