2006-09-06 12:55:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
Not necessarily. If you work hard, you can finish earlier. If you are good at working independently, you can get done much earlier.
2006-09-06 13:01:17 · answer #1 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by homeschool. If the school system is looking over your shoulder due to a suspension or your family voluntarily asking the school system for curriculum, then you have to go through their hoops or spend time getting them to stop trying to control your schooling. This is one of the disappointing lessons of American life, people or institutions can claim they have control over you, and even if they don't you sometimes have to get lawyers or call your congressman to get rid of them.
Hopefully you don't have the school system trying to fool your parents into believing that the school has control over you-they DO NOT have control over you, some states make it harder but none of them can keep you from homeschooling. Parents have the fundamental right to direct their children's education. Even in public school...
Anyway, homeschooling is not something that is 'finished' like school. The end of homeschooling is being an adult. You are finished homeschooling when you are ready to go to college, or find a trade, or basically ready to take care of yourself like adults do.
Your parents will have a lot to say about that. A rule of thumb is if they think you are not ready to 'graduate' but you disagree, your parents are right. Listen to your parents and respect what they tell you about life, and you will be respected by them. Nothing thrills parents more than to realize they have a praiseworthy child; if they are worried about you, then you probably still have some growing up to do.
Try to remember as you are homeschooling that no one remembers even a fraction of the stuff they learned in school. Plus there is a lot of useful stuff a person can know that school doesn't teach. There is only so much you can learn/teach each day, and since school has to accommodate hundreds of kids at once, they pick the stuff to teach that will help the average kid. Unfortunately, no one is 'the average kid.' Everyone in school has things they have to study that they think is baloney, just not the same thing for each kid.
Homeschoolers do not have to waste time pretending that all the things taught in school are important. Become an expert in what you love to do, and learn how to support yourself. Instead of wasting time learning stuff you are going to forget (because you don't care) take that valuable time and dive in to your interests. Find out how people make a living at what you love to do. Make a plan for your adult life.
Do not worry about having a 'well-rounded' education. Look at the people feeding you and your parents that nonsense and see if they live by their own words. Outsiders often hold homeschoolers to higher standards than they do themselves or their own kids.
Most people focus on their own work, their own family and community. That is good enough to be a good citizen and be happy, if that is what satisfies you. If you want more, by all means learn more, more more!
You do not need a diploma for college. You can take the SAT and get in to most colleges with your test scores. You can look at test-prep books and focus on what they are asking for, and learn that.
In addition, you can earn a living with certificates in many fields and trades. You don't need 4-year college, but if you don't go to traditional college, you will do a lot better if you decide to always, always learn.
To keep yourself employable without a bachelors degree, you will need to be a student of life, trends, culture, the economy. Degree or not, you will only succeed in life if you have a basic understanding of family responsibilities, ethics, teamwork, and learning to save and to wait until you earn what you want to have.
I hope this helps you! Have courage, and enjoy your new freedom!
2006-09-06 21:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by ejodee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes...unless you can be given an aptitude test by the school system to check your potential to be skipped to a higher grade.
If you take the test and are deemed a candidate to be skipped a grade or grades you'll graduate sooner. Ask your parent(s) if they will proposition the School to give you the test. God bless you.
2006-09-06 20:04:32 · answer #3 · answered by Vera W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way my friend was 16 when he finished HS he in in his second year of college now at the age on 18.
2006-09-06 20:02:32 · answer #4 · answered by ~green day lover~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can do it in three, or two, depending on how much coursework you choose to do over what's called summer vacation. I don't recommend rushing through it though, give yourself time for a few weeks vacation a year. Happy homeschooling!
2006-09-06 20:28:26 · answer #5 · answered by daryavaush 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No if you start taking advance courses and extra classes you can finish school early.
2006-09-06 19:58:04 · answer #6 · answered by izzyluvu69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you finish all the courses take advanced stuff. If you complete them all, then you can graduate early.'
2006-09-06 20:02:16 · answer #7 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no not really and depends on who fast you finish
2006-09-06 21:12:52 · answer #8 · answered by cassiekennedy2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not necessarily, but then you'd have to be home schooled - and no one should have to do that.
:)
2006-09-06 19:58:54 · answer #9 · answered by Andrewzomai 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋