Home Schooling High School: What High School Records Do You Want To Retain?

By Author: Floyd Kenneth
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What high school records do I need to keep is a frequent question of homeschool parents. You don't want to have your house over-run with papers, but you want to be organized and prepared with everything you might need. There are certain things that all home schooling families should have.



Colleges are going to need to see a transcript. A transcript is an important thing to have even if your kids won't be going off to college because sooner or later, somewhere, somehow, somebody will almost certainly ask you for one. Be certain that you have a transcript that includes the course names, the credits and grades.



Often colleges will want to see a reading list, as well. A reading list is just a list of books that your student has read. It is not a reading bibliography. So as long as you have the author's name and the title of the books that you have read you should be just fine.



Quite a few colleges, if not most colleges want to see course descriptions as well. A course description is really just a one paragraph descriptive essay of what you taught in a class. ...
... This should not be scary or overwhelming either because a descriptive essay is something that we teach our children how to do starting at fifth grade. It's really just a fifth grade writing assignment. I know that you can do that.



Other types of information that colleges might ask for is somewhat more varied. For example, some colleges will ask for samples from a class. I cannot tell you what class it's going to be as each college will ask for something different. What I usually recommend is that people make sure to keep a number of samples from every class.



You will want to keep a wide range of samples. In your math class, you may want to keep math tests, you should keep some science lab write-ups for science classes, and you might keep that paragraph they wrote in French, or their menus and recipes from their culinary arts class. Try to keep something from each class because I was a little surprised at the things that the college admission people were asking me for. It came as a surprise and I was really glad that I had a sample from each class.



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