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Absurd changes to public school curriculums in the past decade have made it unhealthy for children and teens alike. There are also lowered test standards to make up for the pandemic shutting down schools. Then there is the new normal saying math is racist, guns are bad, and indoctrination overtakes imagination. We teach our children to walk and talk only to be told to sit down and be quiet. Bankers fund public schools so the raising of worker classes begins. We have lowered our standards to fit migrants. many elementary schools have turned English into a second language. I will not be getting into the common core curriculum but it is worth the Googling. Note you must inform the school your child is currently attending and officially unenroll them first.

I homeschooled my high schooler and although many parents are both working full-time teaching can still be done from home as long as the child is of legal age to be alone without a guardian. Each country and state has its own set of private school affidavit forms yet the questions are similar and I will help guide you through. I will also share the way I did it well because that is the method I know. My son graduated from high school and honestly the trickiest part is the drawing up of transcripts which I will also show you how I did it. You can find the Homeschool laws by state here. State regulations here Countries with the most prevalent homeschooling movements include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The fun part is the world is your oyster and you will be surprised what activities you are already participating in that will actually count as credits. For example, planting a garden, is it science, home ec, or physical education you decide what is lacking so where to place such an endeavor. Teach them how to cook balanced meals for health class. I tried to teach cursive but my son was not having it. I took advantage of online colleges such as EDx for Geometry and chose simply to audit the course to keep it free. You will still be able to print the completion and grades received. There is also Khan Academy which provides free online courses for kids. You will be surprised to find the number of free resources available for homeschooling.

Your homeschool will be referred to as a private school. Here is a step by step to filling out the Affidavit. The statutory filing period is October 1 through 15 however, the filing system remains open throughout the school year to accommodate new schools. Schools established between July 1 and September 30, shall wait to file an affidavit until the PSA filing period begins in October. *Note a lot of these spaces will not apply unless you have 6 or more children. California Affidavit here

1. Name of school — Type in the name of your school. I chose the name of the street we lived on followed by the word ‘academy’ (You can change the name on subsequent affidavits.) Remember that your child may receive his/her diploma from your school, so take that into consideration when choosing a name.
2. Enter your CDE-assigned 14 digit CDS code, if one was previously assigned. Note: Codes are usually only assigned to schools with six or more students.
3. County in which school is located. — From the drop-down list, select the county where your school is located or type in the name.
4. Public School District in which school is located. Use the drop down list to select your district name or just type in the name of your public school district.
5. Street Address — Private schools must have a physical location in CA. A post office box will not suffice. Type in the street address of your homeschool.
6. City — Type in the city where your school is located.
7. School Telephone Number — Type in your area code and phone number.
8. School E-mail Address — Enter email address.
9. Optional E-Mail Address — Enter email address.
10. Mailing Address (required if different than #5 above) — If your mailing address is different than your street address, provide that info.
11. Mailing City (if #10 has a response) — See above.
12. Type of School — Select one of the options provided: Coeducational (students may include both boys and girls); Boys Only; or Girls Only. (You can choose Coed — even if you currently have just boys or girls in your student body.
13. School Accommodations — This is a trick question. You are provided with a choice of: Residential Boarding Only, Day Only, or Both. Residential Boarding Schools have bureaucratic regulations with which you may not be able to comply. Regardless of the fact that your kids sleep at your private school — select “Day Only.”
14. Do you offer Special Education instruction or services? — Select “No” even if your child has been identified as a “Special Ed” student in the past. Special Ed has bureaucratic regulations and requirements with which you may not be able to comply.
15. Range of Grades Offered — You are asked to select the lowest grade you offer as well as the highest. Notice that the key word is “OFFERED.” You don’t have to put the grades your children are actually in. You can choose grade 1 for the lowest and 12 for the highest, regardless of whether or not you have students enrolled in those grades. Under no circumstances should you offer kindergarten because kindergarten attendance isn’t mandatory and kindergarten may require additional bureaucratic regulation.
16. High School Diploma Offered — As a private school you can issue a high school diploma to your students. You can check “yes” or “no”— but if you offer high school grades (9-12) you should probably check “yes.”
17. Classification of School — Since it’s unlikely that a church is funding your school, select “Non-Religious.”

Prior Year School Information

18. Has this school ever filed a Private school Affidavit under a different school name? — It’s expected that you will use the same school name year after year, so you will probably answer “No”.
19. Enter former name of school (if “Yes” answered to previous question) — Enter the school name you filed under in the past in this box.
20. Has this school changed public school districts? If you moved and your home/school is located in a different school district, answer “Yes”.
21. Former Public School District (if “Yes” answered to previous question).

Statistical Information

22. Range of students’ ages (Youngest may be no younger than 4 years and 9 months.) — Type in the age range of the students enrolled in your school. Do not include preschool or kindergarten age children due to the additional bureaucratic regulations that may apply. Remember, kindergarten and preschool are not mandatory in California.
23. Enrollment on a single date October 1-15 — Enter the number of students that are enrolled in each grade range. Enter “0” for kindergarten, even if you have a 5 year old (for the reasons mentioned previously). If your students are ungraded, fill in the “Ungraded Elementary” or “Ungraded Secondary” boxes. Add up the total number of students enrolled and type that number in the “Total Enrollment” box.
24. Number of Twelfth Grade Graduates in the [prior] School Year — Type in the number of students that graduated in the previous school year, if any.
25. Number of School Staff — Since you are establishing a full-time private school, enter “1” in the full-time teacher slot. Even if you are also the administrator do not count the same staff member twice. Type “1” under “Full-time Teacher” and leave “Administrators” blank. If you are the teacher and your spouse is the administrator, you can enter “1” in each slot. Do not fill in a number for “Part-time Teachers” or “Other Staff.”

Administrative Staff

26. Site Administrator — Fill in your name or your spouse’s name.
27. Site Administrator Title — Select a title from the drop-down list or type in the name you prefer.
28. — 33. Directors and Principal Officers — Fill in your name, address and e-mail address (the same as your school). Only one principal officer is required. It’s okay to designate someone else to be the Director or Principal Officer — such as your spouse. In that case, fill in their name and address.

School Records

34. — 37. Name of Individual who is Custodian of Records — Type in your name, school address, and e-mail address. As a private school you are required by law to maintain school records at the school’s physical location in CA.

Tax Status of School

38. — 41. Select “None of the above,” unless you have formed a non-profit corporation and been granted a federal tax exemption.

Acknowledgments and Statutory Notices

You are asked to check a series of boxes to show you understand that:

42. All Private Schools Affidavits are public documents viewable by the public.
43. The Private School Affidavit must be filed by persons, firms, associations, partnerships, or corporations offering or conducting full-time day school at the elementary or high school level for students between the ages of 6 and 18 years of age.
44. Preschools should contact the Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) of the California Department of Social Services. Contact CCLD at 916-229-4530 or contact a regional office.
45. The Affidavit is not a license or authorization to operate a private school.
46. The Private School Affidavit does not indicate approval, recognition, or endorsement by the state. Filing of this Affidavit shall not be interpreted to mean, and it shall be unlawful for any school to expressly or impliedly represent by any means whatsoever, that the State of California, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education, the CDE, or any division or bureau of the Department, or any accrediting agency has made any evaluation, recognition, approval, or endorsement of the school or course unless this is an actual fact (see EC Section 33190).
47. Private School authorities are responsible to look into health, safety, fire, zoning and business licensing laws. (Unless you are operating your school as a business and actively taking enrollments in exchange for tuition, these probably do not apply to you.)
48. When your school ceases operation, you are required to give a copy of the students’ records to the parents. (This only applies if you enroll children other than your own.)
49. Retain a copy of the Affidavit for 3 years.
50. Filing a Private School Affidavit is not equivalent to obtaining accreditation.
51. A private school shall not employ a person who has been convicted of a violent or serious felony or a person who would be prohibited from employment of a public school district pursuant to EC Section 44237. This does not apply to schools consisting of parents working exclusively with their own children.
52. The students enrolled in this private school and included in the school’s enrollment total are full-time students in this school and are not enrolled in any other public or private elementary or secondary school on a full-time basis.

Electronic Signature

When you file a Private School Affidavit, you sign it under penalty of perjury. Therefore, you are attesting that all of the statements in the affidavit (i.e., you keep attendance records, etc.) are true. Take this seriously. Although it’s unlikely anyone will ever ask to see your records, don’t risk being prosecuted for perjury.

Fill in the required information and print it out BEFORE you click on the “Submit Form” button. (That way, you’ll have a copy of what you submitted.) Be sure to check the form for accuracy before you hit the “submit form” button.

Once you’ve submitted the PSA form online, the completed affidavit will appear on your screen. You are required by law to print out a copy and keep it in your school records.

Schools will have met their obligation to file a private school affidavit only when the data has been submitted online and confirmation has been received. Be sure to print out or write down the confirmation.

The records a private school must keep on file include:

• Copy of the completed Private School Affidavit (PSA).
• Attendance record, indicating days absent. Some homeschoolers use a calendar.
• Faculty qualifications and addresses. Private school teachers need not hold a teaching credential, but must be “capable of teaching.”
• The courses of study offered by the institution. Some will do it for their entire school, and others for each child or grade taught. Refer to the branches of study below to create your own.
• California’s immunization law changed in 2014 and then again in 2016.  While children enrolled in public or private schools will no longer be allowed to submit a personal beliefs exemption or waiver, home based private schools are exempt.  Immunization records are still required to be in a student file.  For more information about immunizations, or to download the immunization record form for your file here: cdph286 Immunization Form.
• For first graders only, there is a “Health Exam for School Entry” form or waiver.
• For new and updated resources on school immunization, ShotsForSchool.org provides the following resources list that many find helpful when reviewing records. The first one may be the most helpful for checking immunization requirements for school admission.
  • Tool for Determining Admission Status K-12 (new!)
  • California Immunization Handbook (aka Blue Book)
  • Guide to Immunizations Required for School Entry | Spanish
  • Parents’ Guide to Immunizations Required for School Entry | Spanish | Chinese | Russian
  • Letter to Parents: Immunizations Needed | Spanish
  • Vaccine Acronyms and Abbreviations (new!)
  • Senate Bill 277 Frequently Asked Questions | Spanish | Russian

Cumulative File

In addition to your required school records, you may want to develop a cumulative file for each student. If your child ever transfers from your homeschool, the new school will request a cumulative file. The following are some suggestions of some items that might be found in a cumulative file. What you choose to put in it is up to you:

1. Legal name of student.
2. Date of birth, place of birth and verification of birth date.
3. Sex of pupil.
   Placing a copy of the birth certificate in the file would provide the above information.
4. Name and address of parent of minor pupil.
5. Entering and leaving date of each school year.
6. Subjects taken during each year your child is in your school.
7. Marks, grades, or credits, if given. Grades or report cards are not required.
8. For high school students, include a current high school transcript, and California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) or GED, if applicable.

Other Records, Forms and Requirements

Parents working exclusively with their own children are not required to undergo FBI criminal background checks (fingerprinting) as is required of classroom teachers. They also do not need a TB test for homeschooling purposes.

For my daily log

My most difficulty with the curriculum was the fact that History taught in schools is mostly lies. There was no way I wasn’t going to teach my son the truth about bankers’ wars and the pyramid scheme that is our financial system. I raised a dragon slayer at a time when there are actual dragons.

You as a principal and teacher need to know your country’s/state’s requirements for graduation. Also very important to make sure your college of choice accepts homeschooled students as some do not.

Below is a List of Helpful Links with Descriptions

ALL FREE BELOW

The U.S Constitution Lesson Plans here

After Skool Educational Videos from Science, Philosophy, and Physics here

Templates and Downloads for High Schoolers here

Declaration of Independence from Library of Congress here

Highly Recommended Teachers Pay Teachers but some lessons are free and site provides dropdown lists to narrow your search for topic and grade. I suggest creating a sign in to keep track and save favorites. here

Vocabulary and Word Skills Lesson Plans here

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Using Enlightenment Philosophy to Teach Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from Yale here

Printable English Worksheets. You have many search choices for type and grade. Also, the links I give are important due to the fact that a Google search to find printable images are mostly the wrong resolution and will be very blurry. here

Youth Political Participation from MIT here

Cool Math Games here

K-12 Foundation here

16 Personalities tests here

Free Practice Exams here

200 Free Textbooks here

Free Printable Record Keeping Forms here

Make Your Own Wordsearch Generator here

High School Biology Worksheets And Answer Keys, Study Guides, And Vocabulary Sets K-8 here

Downloadables

Here is a four year plan template

Cardstock Printables

I also used my printer with cardstock paper to place on walls in the room see below:

Pythagorean Theorem

Download below

Circle Properties

Save below

American Presidents aka Freemasons

SaveBelow

Timeline of the Cold War

Save Below

Multiple Intelligence

American Wars Timeline

Transcript Information

Parents of high school students need to create records that accurately reflect their student, and it can be pretty intimidating at first. You want the transcript to be professional-looking, so it is impressive to the colleges. You need it to be official, so it’s accepted for college or career. You want it to be truthful, with an accurate representation of the student’s performance.

For transcripts, I saved someone else’s and deleted content to fill in my own. Below is a blank editable transcript.

EDITABLE TRANSCRIPT TEMPLATE TO OPEN IN WORD:

EDITABLE TRANSCRIPT TEMPLATE TO OPENINPDF here

High School GPA calculator here

Homeschool Transcripts Explained here