Researching hs high school age dual enrollment

[Patti]

:bigear: Hello all. I am researching home schooled students who are also enrolled in a high school vocational program at their public school. I am an instructor of culinary arts, and have had 6 hs students through my program in the last eight years. I am writing a paper entitled "Respecting the Home Schooled Student" for a master's degree class, and will be presenting it to a group of vocational educators. It has been difficult for me to find information on dual enrolled students. If anyone has had experience with this subject, please e-mail or post your thoughts as I am looking for as much information as possible. Thank-you

[NancyL]

I was just looking into this --we have a consortium of several districts that offer a lot of the different tech programs. My daughter is a rising 9th grader and only the online courses are available for her. They have a lot of different courses that are taught in the high schools, and also in the community colleges. The website is called nevac.org. My daughter is allowed to take 2 classes at a ps, so I would assume these would count for her (either one or two) The signup for certain classes are competitive, first preference is to the home high school students, second is for in district at large students (where we would be) and third is for out of district classes. Pam who is head of the program was most welcoming. (our home school GC for the district was not initially, but Pam offered to sign us up directly) The classes are free and you do get credit. My daughter is more interested in the programs available for 11 and 12 grades, however that could be a problem if she enrolls at a CC. You can see what we have, they also have 2 years of state college scholarships to several kids each year. My friends daughter (not homeschooled ) won one of the scholarships for Teaching Academy. She is not a super strong student, but the TA was great for her and the back ground is giving her quite a boost now that she is in college. (I guess it helped her with learning plans etc) and she kept that information and uses it in college. The parents are thrilled with how she is doing, because her local school GC told her that no way was she "college material" --guess she showed them!

[Janet in WA]

:bigear: Hello all. I am researching home schooled students who are also enrolled in a high school vocational program at their public school. I am an instructor of culinary arts, and have had 6 hs students through my program in the last eight years. I am writing a paper entitled "Respecting the Home Schooled Student" for a master's degree class, and will be presenting it to a group of vocational educators. It has been difficult for me to find information on dual enrolled students. If anyone has had experience with this subject, please e-mail or post your thoughts as I am looking for as much information as possible. Thank-you Question for you -- do you mean a vocational program that offers college credit? It's pretty universal for "dual enrollment" to mean taking college classes for both high school and college credit. Homeschoolers who take some classes at a public high school for high school credit only don't typically use the term "dual enrollment".

I point this out because your subject line may not attract the responses you're looking for.

[CynthiaOK]

Patti, I have a son (age 15) who is highly interested in culinary arts. He is a high performing high schooler and we considered enrolling him at our local vo-tech in the culinary arts program. However, the director of the vo-tech could not approve it because the state has an enrollment age regulation (16). In discussing the situation with the director, who was very kind and understanding, he indicated that most of the students in this vo-tech were older and were considered "at risk" students. He didn't feel that a young student would do well in the social aspects of the course.

This was disappointing for us, but I fully understand what he meant. I wish we had a culinary arts program that would be used by those wanting to pursue that field rather than a course in which to enroll potential drop-outs.

I have an older son who has been dually enrolled at our local university since his junior year in high school.