Transitioning to public/traditional school

When you enroll your child with Florida Unschoolers you are enrolling them in a private school.  And it is about as non-traditional a private school as you can get. You submit enrollment paperwork and you are then free to home educate your child as you like.

Please keep this in mind if you decide to or need to withdraw your child from Florida Unschoolers and enroll them in a more traditional private school or a public school.

If you plan to make this sort of transition, prepare. Find out what the new school will want to see to help with placement -- usually a report card or transcript (high school) and sometimes they will do placement testing.

If you are being forced to enroll your child in another school by life circumstances, try to prepare. Try to print out a report card and gather information that will help the new school give your child the placement that is best for them.

You are free to homeschool or unschool as a Florida Unschooler without keeping a portfolio or testing or following a standardized curriculum. But if you are transitioning to a more traditional setting, your non-traditional approach may mean your child does not get the placement you think they should have. Usually, up until 10th grade, children are placed by age but that decision is entirely up to the receiving school.

When you enroll your child in a more traditional school, explain to them that they have been enrolled in a private school that is an umbrella school for home educators. That you, the parent, have all of the information that is available to make an appropriate placement.

Work with the new school to help them know what is going on with your child; especially provide as much information as possible if you are seeking a placement other than a standard age-based one. And note that starting with 10th grade, a public school will probably want a high school transcript and the new school will decide which credits they will accept, if any, toward their graduation requirements.

Report card (K-9) template here: Report Card 

High school transcript (10-12) template here: Transcript