Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

So here’s the post that was lost, I’m trying to reconstruct it…..

An email came to me from a friend, telling me of a lecture being given on DE History at one of our local libraries. She also suggested that ScienceKid attend so that he can log the hours toward Delaware History. OK, for a moment I panicked and my mind raced. Delaware History? Are we required to teach that? Is that a graduation requirement that SK must meet as a homeschooler? And logging hours? Does he really have to do that?

Now, in my little area logging hours among high schoolers is a BIG thing. Seems everyone does it, but I also think that everyone does it cause the satellite home schools these other hs’ers all belong to require it. I do my own thing as my own non-public school; no need here for oversight, or quotas, or other hoops for us to jump through. I’m a homeschooler right? A true nonconformist but for a moment the ol’ insecurity bug hit me. Thanks to google I found out something really wonderful.

The search led me to an official DE State website detailing graduation requirements. The normal stuff was there, so many credits of math, English, social studies……. And then. There it was, right on an official DE State Website:

8.0 Options for Awarding Credit Toward High School Graduation

8.1.7 High school courses taken while in the middle school in conjunction with an articulated agreement between the district middle school and the district high school(s). Such credit shall also transfer to a high school in another district or to a charter school.

Over the years I’ve heard from experienced hs’ing moms that you can only list on your child’s high school transcript credit taken during the high school years. Credit cannot be earned during the Middle School years for high school level courses. Period. I heard this in person, at hs conferences, on-line forum sites,…. everyone was telling me the same thing. Then I heard an Admissions Officer from U of DE state the same thing. Bummer, it really must be true. ScienceKid did several high school level courses during the middle school years and I decided a long time ago that I would list these courses but just not give him the one or two credits. That way a college would still know that he had taken Logic, chemistry, physics, Algebra 1, and Latin prior to the official high school years.

Hmmm, ‘OUR’ middle school will now have an articulated agreement with ‘OUR’ high school such that credit shall be awarded for those high school level courses taken while in middle school. SK will get one credit for Logic having completed both Introductory Logic and Intermediate Logic and one credit for Latin having completed more than half of Henle Latin 1 The chemistry, physics and Algebra 1 are still up in the air as to I might list those. But, ahhh, thank you very much for getting me worried for a minute this afternoon. A bit more nonconforming here by having high school courses taken during the middle school years count toward high school credit.