We are a small shop that makes printed and printable materials for families teaching at home. There is no curriculum company behind us, no venture money, and no founder story we are going to tell you, because the honest answer is that what matters here is whether the files work.

So here is how to judge that without trusting us.

We are not a homeschooling family, and we are not going to pretend otherwise

Most people selling homeschool materials open with their own kitchen table. We cannot, and we would rather say so on the first page than have you notice the omission later and wonder what else was arranged for effect.

What we are is stubborn about documents. The paperwork side of home education is genuinely badly served: the requirements are scattered across fifty statutes, the summaries circulating online are frequently years out of date, and a good deal of what gets sold to nervous parents is a formatting exercise at a markup. That is a problem we are actually equipped to solve, and it does not require us to have taught anyone's child.

Where a question is properly yours and not ours, we stay out of it. We will not tell you what to read, when your child should be fluent, or whether you are behind. We do not know, and neither does anyone who says so in an advertisement.

How to check our work

Every state requirement we publish carries the statute, a link to the code, and the date we last read it. That is deliberate, and it is the most useful thing on this site. Pick your own state, open the statute next to our summary, and see whether we read it correctly. If we did, you have learned something real about how carefully we work. If we got it wrong, you have caught us in about a minute, which is exactly the point of printing the citation.

We also tell you when the ground has moved. Ohio eliminated its assessment requirement in October 2023. Wyoming eliminated its curriculum filing in July 2025. Both changes are still absent from most of what you will find in a search, and ours will go stale the same way eventually. The review date is there so you can tell.

What we actually do differently

The transcript is a working spreadsheet. Weighted and unweighted GPA and total credits calculate from the grades you enter, and the formula cells are locked so a stray keystroke cannot quietly break the arithmetic. Inconsistent numbers are the single most common problem with homeschool transcripts, and it is a mechanical problem with a mechanical fix.

The documents are editable, and we expect you to edit them. A course description is only honest when it matches the books actually on your table. Ours are written in the register an admissions office reads, then handed to you to make true.

The illustrations are public-domain engravings, chosen and prepared one at a time, with the source of each recorded in a provenance log. Partly because it keeps the intellectual property clean. Mostly because a real burin line does something no generated image does, and you can tell the difference even when you are not looking for it.

What we will not do

No subscription. Everything is bought once and kept, and updates to something you already own come to you.

No urgency. No countdown timers, no seats remaining, no autumn panic. If you are reading this in August, whatever you need will still be here in September.

No Scripture in these materials. Not out of any objection to it, but because a family choosing secular materials should be able to trust that is what they are getting. Our other imprint, Wren & Psalter, is faith-first and openly so. Nobody should have to edit a worldview out of a worksheet.

No claim that our state pages are legal advice, and no pretence they cannot go stale. Read them, then verify with your own state before a filing deadline.

If something is wrong

Write to support@brackenandbough.com. A person reads it.

If something you bought does not work for you, say so and we will refund it. You do not have to explain yourself, and we will not ask you to delete anything first, which we could not verify anyway. It is the only honest way to sell a file that cannot be returned.

And if you find an error in a state page, tell us. We will fix it, cite the correction, and reissue the pack to everyone who owns it.