Home Education New to Home Education.....Home Education Myths...Children Taught at Home Won't be Able to Go to... Children Taught at Home Won't be Able to Go to College or Get a Job Without a High School Diploma Any school can issue a high school diploma. That includes parents who teach their children at home. Most home educating parents have chosen a name for their homeschool. All they need to do is order a blank diploma from a supplier or design one of their own, which would include the name of their school and then have it professionally printed. They can then issue a lovely, official looking diploma to their child upon completion of their child's home education program. It's not surprising that there are enterprising individuals who are willing to issue a high school diploma to homeschooled children. Their fee for a diploma, however, could be saved if parents choose, as I have suggested, to issue a diploma of their own design, which would be no less valid than any other high school diploma. As far as jobs go, if the experience of our own nine homeschooled children holds true employers will soon be scouring the market for promising homeschooled children. The same is true of colleges. I recently attended a homeschool convention in one of the mid-western states. At that convention there were no less than nine colleges represented there, all seeking to attract home-schooled young people to their campuses. With few exceptions, homeschooled children have little difficulty, either entering or keeping pace in college. One young mother told me that when she informed her mother, who is a college professor, that she was going to homeschool her child the response was, "Good. at least one young person will come to this college knowing something." Too bad all grandparents don't feel that way. Parents should not be too quick, however, to believe , that jobs. diplomas, and college are necessarily the highest goals for the little jewels God has loaned to them for upbringing, training, and educating. It's doubtful that many of the men of God would have fit into a college mold—Elijah and John the Baptist to name but two. Where do you suppose they got their credentials? Where is Backside of The Desert College, anyway? (See Exodus 3:1). |
