A homeschool transcript can absolutely get a student into college. Admissions offices read them every year and admit the students behind them. But a transcript has to be built right, because a thin or disorganized one raises questions a strong…
“Online homeschool” and “public virtual school” get used as if they mean the same thing. They do not. One is a no-cost public school delivered through a screen, run by a district on the public calendar. The other is a…
Every state lets you learn at home, but they do not make it equally easy. In some, you file nothing and the government leaves you alone. In others, you file a notice, an education plan, quarterly reports, and sit for…
Homeschooling is legal in all fifty states. But “legal” covers an enormous range, from states where you file nothing and the government leaves you alone, to states that want a notice, an education plan, quarterly reports, and annual testing. This…
A mom in eastern Kentucky once told us she was driving her two students to a McDonald's parking lot four nights a week so they could upload assignments. Her home internet existed on paper. It just couldn't carry a live…
The question almost every parent asks before enrolling is some version of this: "But will my child have friends?" It's the right question. A child can ace every assignment and still come home from school, online or in-person, feeling invisible.…
When a parent calls us in October worried about their tenth grader, the story usually sounds the same. The student was technically going to school. Backpack on, bus stop on time, present on the roll sheet. But the report card…
A mom in Ohio emailed us last spring. Her 9th grader had changed schools twice in two years, and somewhere along the way, a counselor's handwritten note about a tough week in 7th grade had followed him into a new…
A mom in our program recently shared a story that stuck with me. Her 13-year-old son used an AI chatbot to help with a history paper on the Civil Rights Movement. The bot produced three beautifully written paragraphs, citing a…
Online Elementary School: What Parents of K-5 Students Need to Know Before Deciding The parent of a high schooler considering online school asks, “Will colleges accept this?” The parent of a 6-year-old asks something different: “Will my child develop normally?…