If I get my GED can I get my license?

Question

I am 16 and homeschooled and I have a baby on the way. When I finish homeschooled all I get is a GED so I want to go ahead and get my GED but I dont want to loose my license if I drop out so if I do get my GED can I get them back?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what state you're from, but I know in my experience school has nothing whatsoever to do with your driver's license.

Many people without a diploma OR GED get their licenses. When I got my license I never had to show anything remotely school related.

In my state (NJ) there are four parts to the test. I imagine it's similar in most other US states.

1. 6 Point ID Verification - sometimes a high school diploma or school ID can be used as part of your identification, but it's not necessary if you have other valid forms of ID such as a passport, birth certificate, etc.

2. Vision Test - A vision screening is required for all motorists.

3. Knowledge Test - this is about driving, and has nothing to do with your high school education.

4. Health Questions - to determine if you're physically fit to be a safe driver.

Answer 2

What license?  The one to be an unmarried mother?

Answer 3

When you homeschool and graduate, you should get a homeschool diploma.  Have your educator make you a homeschool diploma instead of a GED.  The diploma is worth more in the long run.    here is the law for your state if this doesn't answer you question contact your dmv: School and Your Driver's License

School Attendance Required

Any applicant who is younger than 18 years of age must be enrolled in and not under expulsion from a public or private school and has satisfied the attendance requirements listed in #1 and #2 below for a period of one academic year prior to application for an instruction permit or driver's license.

The DDS will suspend the license of a minor who:

1. Has dropped out of school without graduating and has remained out of school for ten consecutive school days.

2. Has ten or more school days of unexcused absences in the current academic year or ten or more school days of unexcused absences in the previous academic year.

3. Has been found in violation by a hearing officer, panel, or tribunal of one of the following offenses, or has waived his or her right to a hearing and pleaded guilty to one of the following offenses:

• Threatening, striking, or causing bodily harm to a teacher or other school personnel.

• Possession or use of a weapon on school property or at a school sponsored event.

• Any sexual offense prohibited under Chapter 6 of Title 16.

• Causing substantial physical or visible bodily harm to or seriously disfiguring another person, including another student.

• Possession or sale of drugs or alcohol on school property or at a school sponsored event.

Any infraction of the above conduct offenses will be a one-year suspension, or the minor shall be suspended until his or her eighteenth birthday, whichever comes first.

Temporary Driving Permit

A student can obtain a temporary driving permit from the Department of Driver Services to drive to and from work with a suspended license, if he or she has demonstrated the need for the permit. The permit would only be granted if the driver's license has been suspended for a school-related infraction or for dropping out of school.

Answer 4

Did you get your license taken away for some reason?

Who told you that?  Your GED, or lack thereof, have nothing to do with your driver's license.  Neither does school attendance, unless your parents make that a rule.

If you're homeschooled, your parents sign your diploma - it has nothing to do with the state.  If you're on homebound or alternative school, that's another story.  However, if the district is somehow giving you that restriction, your parents can pull you out and you can truly homeschool.

Homeschooling means that you and your parents determine your coursework, your assignments, and your class/graduation requirements.  When you fulfill the requirements, they sign your diploma - which is every bit as legit as a public/private school diploma, and better-respected than a GED.

Edit - Gotcha.  Compulsory schooling age in GA is 6 to 16th birthday, so apparently they can't make you go.  However, I guess they can take your license away, but give you a provisional license to get to and from work.

I would say your best bet would be to go ahead and graduate.  If you've fulfilled your mom's requirements, she can graduate you, and if you need to take the GED as proof you can.  However, with the diploma and your mom's records, it looks like you'd be fine as far as your license.

It looks like the law is more to keep ps kids from dropping out more than to regulate hs kids.  Where it will get a bit sticky is if you're on home*bound* and are still a ps student, but study at home.

Can you clarify if you're homebound ps or if you're fully homeschooled (i.e. your parents are totally responsible for setting your coursework, etc.)?  If you're homebound, that would be up to your school and you'd need to contact them.  If you're homeschooled, your mom can graduate you as soon as you've fulfilled your grad requirements.

Answer 5

Methinks you've been ill-informed.

If you are home-educated, your mum (or whoever else is your home supervisor) is entitled by law to award you your high school diploma so whoever told you that 'all you get is a GED' got it wrong themselves.

'fraid I can't help with the rest though; I'm not American and I don't 'get' this diploma/GED/School/Driver's Licence - thing. We have nothing such as that in my country.

Answer 6

It is illegal for anyone to take your driver's license away. It is state issued, so unless it gets revoked BY THE STATE, you can keep it whether you get a GED or not.

I was homeschooled.  There is NO DIFFERENCE between a high school diploma and a GED.  They are recognized the same and have equal value.

Answer 7

It sounds like you're doing home *bound* education, NOT homeschooling.  Do you get your work from your former school?...or another public school???  If so, then you are not homeschooling.

Homeschooling is when your parents teach you, pay for the curriculum, plan your courses, and issue you a homeschool diploma for "graduation".

GED's don't have anything to do with a driver's license.  How do you think 14-16 year olds receive them?

*** EDITED TO ADD, after your update...

Again, it sounds like you got "kicked out" of a brick & mortar public school to do home*bound* because of behavioral issues.  So in your state of GA, there must be a law that if you don't stay in school and/or get your GED, you don't get to keep your driver's license.

Here's the link to information from the GA dept of driver services:

http://www.dds.ga.gov/teens/DLdata.aspx?...

HTH!