HELP!! I have decided to be home schooled and need help finding a curriculum that offers a diploma?

Question

I have decided to be home schooled i am in 12th grade and need to find a good curriculium, online program or something that will offer me or give me a dipolma(hopefully accredidted) when i finish this said program. I am very confused and would like some advice or good suggestions.

Answer 1

I do not know where you are from, but here in Florida we have a dual enrollment program. You can actually go ahead and take college courses at the local college and earn your diploma at the same time. My daughter , who has been home schooled since 6th grade, will be using this option for her junior and senior years. May be something to look into to!

Answer 2

Who is home schooling you?  And why is this person not finding an appropriate curriculum?   This is not supposed to be YOUR job.

Answer 3

I also wanted to let you know - your curriculum doesn't have to give you your diploma for it to be legit.  Your parents can sign your diploma and transcript, and it's perfectly fine.  A parent-signed diploma and transcript is accepted by everyone from the local community college to Harvard or Berkeley.

There are plenty of good curricula out there that will keep your records and give you the diploma, but it's really not necessary as far as colleges or the military are concerned.  This is basically to save you or your parents the record-keeping.  Accreditation is mainly for if you're planning on going back into public school after your homeschooling year (which you're obviously not) - accreditation makes it more likely that the public school will accept your homeschooling credits.

Every college or university in America accepts homeschool transcripts and diplomas (accredited or not), as long as they are complete and accurate.  It is fully legit for you to pull your own curriculum together, make a course outline with your parents, and graduate with it.  To this end, here are some curriculum options you may want to look into:

English/Writing/Language Arts:

IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing): http://www.writing-edu.com/ They have every writing program you could want :-)

http://www.hewitthomeschooling.com/book/... More good lit analysis stuff

http://www.sonlight.com/ Excellent literature based program

http://veritaspress.com/store/products.a... Good literature based worldview curriculum, classical

Math:

http://www.mathusee.com/ Very conceptually based, taught by DVD

http://saxonhomeschool.harcourtachieve.c... Not one of my faves, but a lot of people use it with success

History:

http://trisms.com/ This is excellent, and will cover your history, geography, lit, writing, humanities, and lots of other stuff.  You make your own coursebook as you go along and research what is important to you.  I'll be using this for my son from 6th-12th.

Science:

http://www.highschoolscience.com/store/?... One of the best curriculums I've seen for science.  Includes AP as well for bio/anatomy, chem, and physics.  All books can be supplemented by MP3 and/or CDRom.

Here are some good "boxed" curriculums to look at, as well:

http://www.abeka.com/

http://www.bjupress.com/webapp/wcs/store...

http://www.aop.com/home/ They have several different options, including an academy where they will take care of the records and such for you.

And here is a place you can find almost all of the above at a discount: http://www.rainbowresource.com/index.php

Whatever you choose to do, hope that helps!

Answer 4

I am entering the 12th grade and I have been using James Madison High School (Although now they are Ashworth High I believe) for the past 2 years. They are a regionally accredited program and offer a diploma.

If you already have credits from your former high school these will count towards the credits you need to receive your diploma from JMHS. They offer 2 diploma programs a general program and a college prep program. IMO the college prep program is a better choice if you plan on going to college because it requires harder courses and more credits.

Let me know if you need any more information.

(*Also the pricing is about $37 a month)

Answer 5

Wondering why you could not stick it out in standard school for another year?

Answer 6

Check out NARHS.  It does cost about $3 or 400.  

Good Luck :)

Answer 7

When she was sailing the Carribean with her parents, my neice used the University of Nebraska.  My sister is a certified teacher and is pretty picky about programs.  The U of N has a very good secular accredited high school correspondance program.  I have no idea how much it costs but I do know that my neice had no problem getting back into high school the next year or into a private Lutheran university in Texas the year after that.  The U of N would also give you a diploma if you graduted from them.  Google the University of Nebraska home study high school program and see if you like that.  I remember that it is not very cheap but it is an exceptional way to get a high school diploma through correspondance.