Roommate Selection and College Options for Home-Schooled Student

Sweetgum
Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:52:40 +0000

Hey Starr, I’ll explain what I was thinking about taking Community College courses for an extended senior year.

I don’t know anything about homeschooling in Tennessee except what is on the state’s website here: https://www.tn.gov/education/school-options/home-schooling-in-tn.html

But in North Carolina to homeschool, you have to file a form to declare a homeschool and you have to do some sort of yearly test (like the Woodcock Johnson, etc) keep track of attendance(!) and that’s pretty much it. When we homeschooled when my oldest was in 11th grade we just used the ACT for our yearly test. You do not have to report the scores in any way in NC, but just have to have them on record in case the state wants to audit you. Then you are free to homeschool anyway you want to. You can follow a curriculum or make up your own lessons or you can un-school where the kid just learns whatever they are interested in.

It sounds like your parents have been following some sort of curriculum and you will have finished it in May? Is that right? If in Tennessee it’s like it is in NC, you don’t have to keep following that same curriculum and do more senior year from that company. In NC you could still declare you are homeschooling and have the dual enrollment at Community College count for your homeschool classes, but you’d need to research the rules in Tennessee. Do you have any friends who also homeschool? They might have some insight.

I think Community College could be a really good option for you. If you go ahead and graduate homeschool this year it might mean entering your 4 year college as a transfer, but it would be less of a leap.

I think you sound very mature and thoughtful about this whole process and I think you will do well wherever you end up.

Oh, and the reason to take the ACT or SAT practice tests w/o prep is to show you what you need to work on. For example if your math skills are great through Algebra, but you get stuck on some Geometry then you’d know you need to work on that.

I got these ACT prep books for my D22:
https://smile.amazon.com/Official-2021-2022-Practice-Online-Content/dp/1119787343/

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1732232008/

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1732232016/

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1796625841/

But there are a lot of resources online and you can often find last years ACT or SAT prep books in thrift stores.