Colleges embrace home-school students
BevK September 25th, 2007
For years, fear of what might befall their child when the time came for higher learning made some parents reluctant to teach their kids at home through high school – or even at all. But that fear has dissipated as colleges become friendlier to the home-schooled – and more area home-schoolers show they can make it on campus – even at ages younger than their traditionally educated peers.
“The intimidation factor still happens, but it’s not as valid as it once was,” says Julie Hughes of Fort Wayne-based Christian Homeschool Association for Teens, or CHAT, referring to parents’ reluctance to home schooling through 12th grade.
I’ve graduated three from homeschool and have two more on the way. We didn’t have any problems dealing with the public or private universities my children were interested in attending. The key is to plan for college admission requirements. There are so many ways to cover things that may frighten parents (think higher maths or chemistry). I think the biggest thing that makes parents put their kids into school for high school is sports (their son wants to play football) or school systems that will not allow a return to high school in the middle of high school (they won’t accept credits homeschoolers earn on their own.)
