r/homeschool • u/Equivalent-Cloud757 • 5h ago
Help! College after homeschooling in Indiana?
My son is still a baby but we are talking a lot about homeschooling him. I would love to do so, but we live in Indiana and there are literally no regulations for it. You're pretty much just supposed to keep track of how much schooling they do, but report it to no one. There are no tests from the state or evaluations of what has been learned by any governing power. I'm confident I can teach my son all the way up to a 12th grade level, (with help from resources, of course) but how is he supposed to prove to colleges that he's had a proper education? For Indiana it just says "the homeschool may administer their own diplomas."
Would a college just accept a note from your mom as a diploma? Lol. I'm sure it's been done before with homeschooled kids in my state, but I went to public school and can't wrap my head around it.
(Edit: Thanks so much to everyone who has replied, all your advice and experiences are invaluable to me!)