Check out NARS (North Atlantic Regional School). You can go at your own speed, fast or slow.

There is no requirement to continue homeschooling. You can do it for a day or years, whatever works for your situation.

Best of luck to you 🙂

Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states and yes, you can switch back and forth from homeschooling to public school any time you want. If you *are* going back into public school, the best time to do it is freshman year of high school (9th grade). Otherwise you may not get credit for classes you’ve completed in homeschooling and it could take longer to graduate (unless you use an accredited curriculum).

Once you start homeschooling, you don’t have to keep homeschooling. However, that doesn’t mean that the school you want to go to for gr. 9 will accept that your 1 year of homeschooling was the equivalent of 2 of their years of public school. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that the school will NOT accept it. Talking to the school you’d be going to for gr. 9 is the only way to find out if they’d accept it or not.

Doing 2 grades isn’t what you think it is. It isn’t simply doing twice the work–it’s developing all the skills that go along with doing the work. You can’t always speed up those skills.

Bottom line: you have to talk to both the umbrella school and your future gr. 9 school. And it’s very, very unlikely that they’d accept it.

It is possible to transition from homeschool to public school in AL. However, you may have trouble being readmitted to the grade of your choice depending on the county you reside (it is not ‘encouraged’ to skip grades in our county). Since the systems vary from county to county you’ll have to try to get information from your local BOE, which will probably be difficult at this juncture as you are talking about leaving now and returning later. Instead of asking “If I were to homeschool for a year and complete 2 grades would I be allowed to return and begin 9th grade” I think I would instead present it as a done deal (“I have completed 2 grades and would like to return for 9th grade”) as you’re far more likely to get an answer instead of someone attempting to discourage you from doing it.

There seems to be a little confusion here regarding ‘umbrella’ schools in AL. They’re more typically called church cover schools and apparently function very differently then umbrella or cover schools in other states. The function of most cover schools in AL is simply to fulfill the state homeschooling requirements (establish and/or enroll in a church school). The only requirement in our state is to file a Church School Enrollment Form with the county BOE when we start homeschooling. When you enroll in a ‘cover’ school, they sign off as administrator on your form, then you send it in. And thats pretty much it. Now, some covers do offer transcript services, some have support groups, some may require a statement of faith, and a few like to have an idea of what grade/curricula you’re persuing, but most are extremely hands off. There are dozens statewide so its pretty easy to choose which one fits your wants/needs the best. (And yes, there are a few pagan, multi- and non-denominational “church” covers as well)

Additionally, I’m not sure in which county you reside, but if your middle school is that far behind odds are your high school is the same or possibly worse. Unfortunately, Alabama typically comes in close to last in all the education studies in the country. There are a few counties that are exceptions, hopefully yours is better then the average. You might try asking around local homeschool support groups to see what their experiences have been both for dealing with the BOE and transitioning in or out of public school. If you do decide to continue homeschooling through high school you’ll have no problem getting into a college – they’re actively recruiting homeschoolers these days!

For reference:

Homeschool Laws in AL:

http://www.hslda.org/laws/analysis/Alabama.pdf

Cover Schools:

http://www.leapingfromthebox.com/hs/alhschurchcover.html

Support Groups:

http://www.leapingfromthebox.com/hs/alhssupportgroups.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=alabama+homeschooling

Best of Luck to you!

You should go to the school near you and ask them these questions. Talk to the principal or the guidance counselor or someone there. Some of the answers may vary depending on school district policy. They will want to put you in classes appropriate for your abilities, but there may be limitations. I don’t know if seventh graders in your school can take 8th grade classes. Go and ask at the school with your specific requests.

Well, you certainly are right, you have asked this question before, and it is still open. According to the other questions you have asked about this subject, you are in this predicament because you didn’t like the private school you were in, you didn’t like any of the other private schools in the area, and you wanted to convince your mom that you would be fine in the public school, even though she didn’t want you to go.

Now you are in the public school and you don’t like it, thinking it is too easy (how long have you been in? one week, two, three?) and you decided you didn’t think it was challenging and now you don’t want to go to public school for junior high, so you want to skip junior high by homeschooling two years in one.

Who’s to say, if you are able to talk your parents in to paying for two years of homeschooling you won’t decide in a couple of weeks that you don’t like it too?

Don’t misunderstand me, it is perfectly normal for someone your age to not know what they want. But to create all this drama is a bit overdramatic.

You talked your mom in to letting you go to public school, so I say you should stay right where you are. Or maybe you should’ve stayed in the private school you grew to dislike.

Your mom’s friend is not right, you do not have to “stay in homeschooling” but depending on where you live it could be difficult for you to transfer back in to public school.

our home school is affiliated with a private school and they call it duel enrollment. very cool. ask about that. I do know public schools wont do duel enrollment, the state and county does matter . we live in California but the counties are important. some in ca are terrible while some are great. I have found Mariposa co. to be the best so far. you could contact them and ask them what you can do.

http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=AL

You will need to find a religious homeschooling umbrella or have a private tutor. Looks Alabama isn’t too friendly to home schoolers.

I’m completely unqualified to answer this question, but was interested in the answers. I would like to say how great it was that you other folk did what you could to help this kid out. Well done!

Why don’t you do 4 years in one?, this way you be done!.