Disclaimer: My wife created an online HSLDA HS English class. My daughter graduated from Patrick Henry College. We live in Loudoun County, Virginia and homeschooled our kids through HS.
There is an incredible graduation experience at the homeschool annual conference in Richmond... where you hand out the diploma to your kids. Head down there in a couple months and check it out (but book hotel early... it is a huge conference).
Do not go by county guidelines. HSLDA is nationwide but HQ in VA. They are attorneys who know VA law better than the school districts themselves. To us, membership was not optional... even prior to our direct association with them.
Here was our path:
Calvert Education (curriculum/online): Extension of a private, traditional school in Baltimore. They did not have a HS program back then so we supplemented with local homeschool chapters (classroom teaching), Liberty online, HSLDA online, son took a few classes at NOVA community college for senior year and got into a very competitive major at a VA state university.
Today there are many online programs for HS, including universities. It is a road well traveled at this point and, for now at least, VA is a great state for it.
Enjoy the journey!
I want to thank everyone for all the helpful advice. I don’t quite share the negative perception of the public school system that many of you have, although I certainly understand it, but I think it will be in my family’s best interest to take her out of public school for now at least. I spoke to my doctor today and she said that I am medically too fragile to be exposed to coronavirus, and kids can be a vector for it, even though they don’t usually get very sick from it. I am not of the opinion that this is just a hoax, and I think it’s already far more widespread than what we can see from the official numbers. It is unfortunate that the government has not been more prepared - we should have had aggressive testing from day 1 (and free testing - when it comes to a public health issue like this, a bit of socialism is good, since the more this thing spreads, the more it harms the economy and kills people). But it is what it is, and now we have to make the best of it. Stay safe, everyone, and thank for all the advice.