Homeschooling in North Carolina

[Carnation]

In CA, we also have free (almost) dual-enrollment for high school students (actually K-12 students). If you are under 16, then you must have instructor approval for each course you sign up for.

Actually I tried navigating this before the fall semester. Our local community college requires 1) to get an instructor to agree to instruct your student 2) you must get both instructor and department chair to sign a form agreeing to allow a young student to take the course 3) then as a homeschool student the parents must sign a form consenting 4) submit your R4 homeschool certificate 5) bring all these forms to the registrar in person 6) then you have LAST pick when it comes to registering for classes and can only register for the course IF there is still room in the course.
Yep, that's right. You could go through all this and then still not be able to register for the course if it is full of students who have already graduated from high school. AND you have to go through this for each and every course and semester your student wants to attend until they graduate high school.

I was told to wait until my son passes the CHSPE before signing up for college courses because they will consider him a high school graduate even if we continue to register him with the state as a high schooler. Unfortunately as a homeschooler ds has to be registered with the state as at least 10th grader before he can take the CHSPE. In the meantime I will continue to work through high school math with my son and pray that I can keep up.