Do homeschoolers receive valid diplomas?
This depends entirely on where you live and how you’re homeschooling. If you’re doing online school, the online school will issue your diploma and transcripts. If you’re doing correspondence school it will work the same way, and usually the same goes for charter schools. If you’re not homeschooling through a school but rather you and your parents are doing it independently, it’s a little different. Your mom and/or dad are responsible for creating and issuing your transcript. Your parents also issue your diploma. They can create it themselves using blank templates or they can arrange for a company to professionally print one for you. There are many online companies that do this for homeschoolers, and yes it is perfectly legal in every state and worth just as much as a state issued diploma. You see, a diploma is really nothing more than a reward certificate just like the ones you were given for graduating kindergarten, winning a competition, or say being voted MVP in a soccer season. It’
