This happens so rarely, I thought I should make note of it: For once, I agree with the school district.
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I would argue further that just accepting the credits (even w/o grades) is putting the school’s name on it if it issues a diploma. At least on the surface of the argument. But I know from past experience that schools always accept other public school transcripts without a problem, including the grades. Then the child must sink or swim at the new school.
Colleges DO look at the entire transcript and they DO weight schools. An A at some schools is not the same as an A at another. So I’m not really sure why the school declines full credit/grade transfer.
My high school didn’t accept my credits from Germany with grades because they didn’t know what to do with them so I essentially got credits.
If a senior performs well their senior year and earns the diploma, I don’t see a problem with this. The college will have the parent’s diploma with grades attached and the school’s diploma as well. So long as their aren’t major discrepancies, I doubt there would be any issues.
In fact, I had to take a semester of American government so I had four and a half years of high school.
Oh, now, you WOULD have to try to transfer internationally. Even with these mystical national standards, you’d be messed. :]
I didn’t mind the credits given on pass/fail. It makes sense to me, since our kids would get A’s as they only move on when they’ve mastered whatever they’re working on (however long it takes). I think that’s a little too individualized to work with for school staff.
Regarding your point about weighting, Mrs. C, my older kids and I have noticed universities and colleges with some preferential leanings for homeschool recruitments here in Illinois.
I’m still puzzled why any homeschoolers would go to public school to finish out a high school education. From the articles, it appears they want the public school diploma. The area is prosperous, and I’m sure the ps is good (as far as public schools go). But the University of IL is paying particular attention to homeschoolers, and I know several homeschoolers (including unschoolers) who had no problem getting into that very competitive university.
I have more information from an IL perspective here:
http://www.eduwrit.com/blog/?p=1368
JUst fyi, it’s the same issue from community college to university, for homeshcoolers and everyone else. The perfect GPA from the AA degree doesn’t transfer into upper division, only credits transfer but not the grades.
So I don’t see the difference or the argument –
I forgot about that! It was one of the reasons I chose to not start at the community college way back when.
When you are outside the system, the fact that the system doesn’t quite know how to deal with you shouldn’t be a surprise. I’d fight if homeschoolers were being denied access, but because they can’t get the same transcript as everyone else when they did not have the same educational experience as everyone else?
I do think parents and teens need to think about all these things very carefully. For me, of course, it’s just another good reason to go straight to the CC instead of the high school in the first place, at age 15 or 16.
From the little I’ve read, it sounded like the situation changed recently which then I can understand why some parents were upset. But high school and beyond is something I think we need to consider carefully. That is why I refuse to make my mind up just yet.