This late at night
I can surely be witty –
But my high school planning
Does not look so pretty;

If you will just help me,
I’ll be quite prudent –
and I’m sure you’ll find me
a Model A student.

With that Gold Care touch
from my own HomeScholar –
It won’t take much
to find that my dollar…

is a small price to pay
for her personal mentoring
to make sure that transcripts
are fine-tuned and centering

my children’s studious interests
in a positive light –
so that colleges everywhere
will be waged in a fight

to make their best offers
and grant the most dollars
to inspired, home educated,
college-prepped scholars.

– anonymous

How many years is too long to count for high school?! Then there’s our 13 year old. Maybe you can call it the Golden Care Club… we will all be in our ‘golden’ years by the time we figure it out!

[verse]
Homeschooling is the best choice ever
You will agree!
But High School with out Lee, oh, NEVER!
Not my sons and me.

[verse]
Science, Histr’y, and about Creation
Learn these at home.
Then scholarships and invitations
From th’ schools will come.

[chorus]
High School moms are sad and dreary
everywhere I roam.
Transcripts can make their hearts grow weary
with High School at home.

[verse]
Lee has a certain special’zation
She’ll see you through
You’ll make it to that graduation
If HomeScholar helps you too!

Ok, that’s about the best I can do…
<3
Sheri

High school chaos here
Seeking mentor, clarity
Help HomeScholar Lee

Now, to put that on paper so it appeals to someone in admissions… “One young man interested in becoming FBI agent, selected by 4-h club to participate in sharp shooting contest, won interpretative reading contest for comedic reading in a southern accent, won 2nd place state art contest of a duck, and trying to teach himself Arabic, keeps flashcards in his pocket to write down and remember things of interest, including vocabulary and math, forgets to wear shoes outside and wears muddy shoes inside after continuously falling into the creek.”

Now, Goals: “While, bringing down the bad guy, young man will comically describe the experience aloud in one of 50 accents he practices daily in one of 50 personalities he practices with me daily, and then will artistically draw the experience for you, while I mop the kitchen floor the 5th time that day and add baking soda and vinegar to my wash daily to get the creek out of everyone’s clothes.”

Other than having to work on cutting my transcript to around 1oo words for this contest, maybe I’ll do ok with this? Not sure, but I would love to try out the Gold Care Club to see if it might help. Gotta go, I just heard another splash!

But then…
High School.
We started out smiling,
“We can do this!”
“What could possibly happen?”

Well.

We finished Year One and hid it away
In a box.
In the corner.
Don’t look too closely.

The transcript was waiting.

Year Two was better, but
All summer grading.
All summer filing.
What happened to vacation?

But the transcript was waiting.

Year Three has been stuffed full
With too many acronyms: PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP—Oh my!
With too many colorful college pamphlets—
How can everywhere be both best and better?

But the transcript is still waiting.

You want to go where?
It costs how much?
They want to know what?
Detailed Class Descriptions? HELP….

Year Four looms impending, deadlines and deadlines,
But with HomeScholar it will be a breeze.
But with HomeScholar we will confidently tackle those college admissions.
And I will sit back, take a deep breath, and slowly relax…

The transcript is done!

But.
Wait…
I forgot.

There is another.
It’s time to start back at Year One!