Right, a family member of mine was recently home schooled after their freshman year of high school. For a long list of reasons which can be summarized as the lo

Right, a family member of mine was recently home schooled after their freshman year of high school. For a long list of reasons which can be summarized as the local public school was absolute garbage small town meth capital level of schooling. (Think no AP/etc classes) and a local district unwilling to provide an alternative school. Home schooling in this case was basically 70 something credits from the local community college, a handful of CLEP exams, and a bunch of highschool credits from the state online highschool system. The result was a diploma from said local highschool and an AA from the community college and acceptance to a college in the top 50 nationally. So, its not all dumb parents doing dumb things, but sometimes parents making the best out of a poor set of circumstances. And AFAIK the diploma from the crappy HS was just a rubber stamp to check the "graduated from HS" for the community college to grant the AA, and the public Uni to take them as a junior (at age 18 no less). edit: And I should point out the local HS itself apparently had some decent teachers/etc, its just the administration was catering to a conservative community largely disinterested in public education made worse by the fact that the top 10% or so of economically advantaged students had already left the district for a fancy private school or some kind of early college classes similar to my family member. Its the white version of the inner city failing school story, except there wasn't a better highschool on the other side of town for the motivated kids/parents to transfer to unless you also had 15k/year to spend.