I am 18 years old and I recently moved from missouri to alaska with my soon to be husband and i was wondering if there was any way i could legally homeschool myself????
2007-01-09 10:28:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
No, it is illegal!
Where I am!
2007-01-09 10:32:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure about the rules where you are, but the reality is that we are learning all our lives. Check out the state laws in Alaska and do the work and exams that you need to do to graduate.
I home school my youngest daughter who is 9 years old and sometimes people think it is a weird thing to be doing, but really I kind of home schooled myself too.
Thirty six years ago, when I was 15 and growing up in England, I left school and got a full-time job (long story, I was bored with school and my family needed the money), anyway, my job required that I worked fairly late every day, but I did get a 90 minute lunch break.
I would go to the Public Library and ready for an hour and a half. I read anything and everything! I read books on Anthropology, Psychology, Music, Photography, Ancient Egypt, Mystery novels, the Occult, Classics, Nature & Wild life - really almost anything.
When I look back, that two years was was such an enriching time and was the time in my life that an amazing amount of learning took place - probably more than if I had stayed in school.
I have had a great life, travelled a lot, married, had a family, taken various night-school classes, enrolled in University at the age of 40 and got my first year completed - I am now the mother of 5 and grandma of 3 and a foster mother to many. I may return to school in the next few years and perhaps get my BA by the time I'm 60 - who knows!
I still have a love of learning that has lasted throughout my life - so YES, you can home school yourself. Don't ever stop!
2007-01-10 00:08:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because you are 18 you are no longer required to attend school. I am assuming that you want a high school diploma. You would probably want to go the GED route. Check with a local high school, college, or library, and they should be able to give you info on this.
If you want to learn at home on your own, at your age that would not be called homeschooling, but with the internet - information is at your fingertips. If you have the time at this stage in your life, then you can pursue your interests either through the internet or the library.
Also, don't forget to plan for your future. Getting an education is most appropriate when you are young - it gets harder as you get older, plus there are more things to take up your time. You need to decide where you want to be educationally in 5 years then plan accordingly.
2007-01-09 19:29:43 · answer #3 · answered by Cris O 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You know what? You aren't required to do mandatory education in a government building anymore.
However, people are allowed to learn whatever they want. No one is going to come in and tell you that you cannot learn. If you want to take a GED test, get a book and learn what will be on the test. I think it's too late to try and prove that you competently homeschooled yourself to get into college without the GED though.
Good luck. Ask yourself what you want to know and how you're going to learn it. The right to learn is available to everyone, just our society has told us we are too stupid to learn on our own. Look at society just a hundred years ago. It was filled with entrepreneurs who built this country by working hard. Now we're told we can't succeed without their paper in our hands and our records.
Good luck
2007-01-09 21:42:49 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Legally, you can not register yourself as your teacher to homeschool yourself (I am assuming you want to get a HS degree; you cannot homeschool college period...) However, you could register your husband (assuming he lives with you, that's probably a safe assumption) as the teacher and then homeschool yourself... and to those people who say you can't teach yourself, I taught myself piano, guitar, algebra, and trig...
2007-01-09 19:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by Beast8981 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Home school? No.
But at 18 and married you could apply for a GED and take the exam. Online courses aare available for high school also.
2007-01-09 18:40:34 · answer #6 · answered by science teacher 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What is it you are looking to do? Get a diploma? I don't think you could give yourself a diploma--it would look rather odd--but you could definitely sign up with some sort of online program to get your diploma or go for your GED.
2007-01-09 19:55:05 · answer #7 · answered by glurpy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think that's entirely legal. But you can get your GED instead.
2007-01-10 03:37:59 · answer #8 · answered by Melissa 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your going to teach yourself what you already don't know?
Hhhmmmm...not sure how that works.
2007-01-09 18:35:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No you can't.
2007-01-09 20:59:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋