[Kevin OMalley]

"... printed up our own H.S. diploma... "

***This sounds very intriguing. For DameAutour's sake, could you go into that a bit more? It sounds like there might be a loophole she could take advantage of and go to a community college straightway.

[DameAutour]

Yes, I am interested in that. I guess I am opposed to the GED because in my mind there is a stigma attached. It is perhaps unimportant in the long run, but I'd like to explore every other option first.

[Max Combined]

My daughter was home schooled. When we took her over to the local community college, they gave her a test which she did very well on. The school said she could start taking classes if she had a diploma and a transcript. Using my college degrees as a template, I whipped up a diploma, calling our homeschool such and such Academy, myself as Principle and gave my wife some sort of title. I made up a transcript listing the things she had studied, with some exaggeration and gave her all A's. When the school asked for her diploma and transcript, I handed over the ones I had printed up. The advisor looked at them, laughed, and said that Texas did not have any laws that differentiated between a home school and a private school. Then he took them over and made copies of them, put them into her file, and handed the originals back to me.

What works in Texas probably will not work in other states. Texas has no rules whatsoever about home schooling. One just does it.

[goldi]

My ex-brother-in-law quit school at 16. When he was about 19, he went down to the local four-year college and asked the dean if he could take college classes while working for a GED. The dean said yes. He now is the vice president of finance for a pediatric home care company. Does pretty well too.