At the beginning of last summer we began fund raising for my daughter's senior year. I didn't want to mess with a college complaining because my daughter hadn't graduated from an accredited school. Most colleges are accepting of homeschoolers now, but a few still aren't. The community college we were looking at is one of them. Why a community college? The tuition at the community college is much more affordable. My daughter can get her basic courses out of the way for a lot less than many of the four year schools.
However, we have hit a snag. The diploma my daughter was supposed to be attaining may not be happening after all. Whether it was a mistake or an act of something else, the money that was earned, donated, and paid just doesn't seem to be there. So, now I am left with a couple major decisions.
My daughter wants to be a social worker. She is smart. She has done well in school. Now I have to make the decision whether to try to figure out the mess we currently are in or just send my daughter to get her GED. While that wasn't the course of action I wanted, that may be what I have to do so that my daughter can graduate on schedule.
She doesn't care. She just wants to graduate so she can go to college. Many homeschoolers don't even get any sort of diploma with accreditation, and many of those kids are very well educated. Like I said, the one school we are looking at is insistent upon it. So, it may be a formality, but my daughter may have to get a GED to attend college. If we lived closer to the college, dual enrollment may be an option. However, distance is too great a factor at this point.
This bothered me more than my daughter. It's not her getting a GED that bothers me. It's the fact that I feel like we worked hard for a diploma and someone wasn't honest with us. We worked hard to earn the money for tuition for the accredited school, and I feel that there was no point when someone wasn't honest and may have misused the funds.
I have asked God why this has happened to us. So far, no answer. I guess that shows me that there are still lots of flaws in the homeschooling world that not all colleges are respectful of homeschoolers... otherwise I wouldn't have to shell out this kind of money for a diploma that doesn't mean any more than if my daughter would have just studied the same material without the school name on it. It has also showed me that even those I think I my sense of discernment in people leaves a lot to be desired. Sadly, this stuff happens, even to Christians. I thought I could trust someone and it has turned out that may have been a mistake.
Again I have to trust God to be my vindicator. He holds my daughter's future in the palm of His mighty hands. He knew this was going to happen. He will see us through whatever we have to do so that my daughter can fulfill all that He has for her. There is an enemy that doesn't want my daughter to do what God has called her to do. He is trying to hurt us and discourage us. I am putting my faith in God that this will work out.
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