What living books means once you stop being precious about it
Most of what gets attached to the phrase is decoration. Here is the two-page test, and four titles from the usual canon that do not hold up on contact.
The journal
The Journal
Notes on the paperwork, the law, and the long middle years.
The counselor letter, when the counselor is you
A counselor letter is a document about a school, written by an administrator, that happens to mention a student. Write that one. The fond letter about your child is the one everybody writes and no reader needs.
Why you should not write AP on a transcript unless you registered the Course Audit
AP is a College Board trademark, and permission to put it on a transcript comes from exactly one place. The useful surprise is that a homeschool can go get that permission, on a page written for homeschool providers, by 31 January. Here...
When you may write Honors on a transcript, and when it is a claim you cannot support
Honors is not a regulated word and nobody grants you permission to use it. Which is exactly the problem. What an admissions reader does with the word, the four bases that hold up if someone asks, how many is too many, and...
Your state probably does not require what the Facebook group says
Eight states require nothing at all. Ohio dropped its testing requirement in 2023 and half the internet has not noticed. Here is how to read your own state code in about ten minutes, without a lawyer and without a forum.
How to count a high school credit when you never used a textbook
The 120-hour rule, where it actually comes from, when to ignore it, and how to award a credit for a year of work that had no syllabus and no final exam.
What a college actually does with your homeschool transcript
An admissions reader spends somewhere between six and ten minutes on a whole application. Here is where your transcript sits in that, what gets checked, and the one thing that makes someone pick up the phone.