About
We are a small press. We make printed and printable paperwork for families teaching at home. No curriculum company behind us, no venture money, and no founder story, because what actually matters is whether the files work.
Here is how to check that without trusting us.
We are not a homeschooling family
Most people selling homeschool materials open with their own kitchen table. We cannot. We would rather say so here 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 badly served. The requirements sit in fifty separate statutes, the summaries circulating online are often years out of date, and a good deal of what gets sold to nervous parents is a formatting exercise at a markup. Fixing that does not require us to have taught anyone's child.
Where a question is 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.
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. Pick your own state and open the statute next to our summary. If we read it correctly, you have learned something real about how carefully we work. If we got it wrong, you caught us in about a minute. That is the point of printing the citation.
We also say 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 missing from most of what a search turns up. Ours will go stale the same way eventually, and the review date is there so you can tell.
What we do differently
The transcript is a working spreadsheet. Weighted GPA, 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 most common problem with homeschool transcripts. Mechanical problem, 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 over for you to make true.
The illustrations are public-domain engravings, chosen and prepared one at a time, each with its source recorded in a provenance log. Partly to keep the rights clean. Mostly because a real burin line does something a generated image does not, and you can tell even when you are not looking for it.
What we will not do
No subscription. You buy once and keep it, and updates to something you already own come to you.
No urgency. No countdown timers, no seats remaining, no autumn panic. Read this in August and whatever you need will still be here in September.
No Scripture in these materials. Not out of any objection to it. A family choosing secular materials should be able to trust that is what they are getting, and 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 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.
Find an error in a state page and tell us. We will fix it, cite the correction, and reissue the pack to everyone who owns it.