How To Homeschool High School - Episode 367
Are you new to homeschooling, or perhaps entering those high school years? Do you wonder how to homeschool high school? In this episode, Felice Gerwitz and Vicki Tillman (The Homeschool Highschool Podcast) discuss how to get started and the information you need to know!

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SO you want to know how to homeschool high school...well, you came to the right place. Today's wonderful guest is a supercharged knowledge bank of information, Vicki Tillman!

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Vicki Tillman does everything homeschool highschool! Transcripts, encouragement, and everything in between. Vicki started homeschooling about thirty years ago and times have changed yet if there were not opportunities they started them. If there were enough of us moms we'd start co-ops or debate teams or cinematography teams and, choirs. We began an umbrella school that was registered with the state of Delaware so that the high schoolers could get a transcript approved by the state.

Homeschooling opens doors. What the universities have found in this early generation, especially my older kids is that homeschoolers know how to rock things. They know how to study, they know how to motivate themselves and they actually often have better social skills than their traditionally schooled peers. So they often were campus leaders in organizations. That is so true.

Yet parents have so many questions:

* Will this work for us?
* Is this something that will be longterm?
* Will our kids be able to get into colleges?
* What kind of transcripts do I need?
* Where can we get our books?

How do you start homeschool high school?

* Start by joining the homeschool legal defense organization HSLDA.org 

* At the HSLDA website, they have all the information for state requirements for high school.


* There is no one right way to homeschool. All kids are different. What works for one may not work for the others.
* If the student needs a transcript, they need to have a piece of paper that they graduate with that will follow them to college or even into the workforce. Employers can ask for them even ten years later
* Know what credits you need to graduate.

* Typically four language arts credits, between two and four maths according to what their goals are and what the state wants. They'll need somewhere between two to four sciences. And the same with social studies. They usually need a couple of world languages. Phys ed, usually a health and then usually a fine arts credit.
* Every state varies. That's why we send you to HSLDA, look at their state map for more information about your particular state.
* Sometimes God calls some kids to go into the trades or into some kind of artisan work. If that is the case they don't need to kill themselves doing super-duper academics in high school.
* The college-bound kids, especially if they're going after scholarships or going to a state or a more competitive college, will want to go to the high end of things and do more vigorous curriculum.