I'm new to this forum so forgive me if this has been asked a million times, but I'm curious as to why others homeschool. For us, my husband is in the army and we recently moved here. DS went to the on post school for the last two months of last year. He literally did nothing! He watched a lot of movies and sat outside watching teachers vs. students playing baseball, but no learning. He was very annoyed at the other students and how obnoxious they were. He started volunteering in the office during lunch just to get away from the other kids. We had talked about homeschooling and his experience just made the decision that much easier. So what about you?

For high school literature. I'm just looking for people's opinions on the matter. What do you think every high school child should read? Please give specific names of books, don't just say "classics".

They don't have to follow these requirements. There aren't any "graduation" requirements at all for homeschooling here. I was just using the public school's requirements as an example of what I was thinking of doing. I guess I didn't do a very good job explaining. Sorry. I could issue him a homeschooling "diploma" and provide transcripts to the community college or he could get his GED in order to be enrolled in community college.

I should have mentioned that one of the classes is PE so I guess I wouldn't really count that as part of the day. I've looked into dual enrollment but I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of it in our area as we are new to the state.

The reason I ask is because we recently moved to a new state and their graduation requirements are different than where we were. The high school requires 22 credits for graduation. Each class is one credit so that equals to 22 classes. If you divide that by four "semesters" (a fall and spring semester for 2 years) that equals out to 5.5 classes per semester. DS who is in the public high school takes 4 classes per semester now. The only reason I thought of DS going to the local community college at 16 is, IMO, community college wasn't any harder than high school (I went to community college after high school). So I figured he could get a "jump start" on college. He is mature for his age and I think he would do fine in college classes. Thanks for the opinions though, keep 'em coming.:)

My oldest DS is in high school. He wants nothing to do with homeschooling. My youngest is being homeschooled. The school my oldest attends has a different kind of scheduling. He has four classes for half of the year. Each class is 11/2 hours long. So, for example, he will have a whole year english class in only 1/2 of the year. I was wondering if this would work well with homeschooling. I was thinking that maybe each half of the year could be considered a full year. I hope this makes sense the way I'm explaining it. So DS would have 9th and 10th grade classes in one year (sept.-june) and 11th and 12th the following year. By then he will be 16 and he could begin classes at the local community college. Does anyone think that is possible or am I crazy to think that would work? Has anyone done/tried that?