In this episode, I speak with the President of the Home Educator Association of Canada about the importance of a high school diploma to go on to post-secondary education and why you don't need one. I also talk a little bit about graduation and the laws in each province.
00:00:54.160It's quite different because their entire educational system is also different.
00:00:59.740But in general terms, what we tell our members is you don't need a high school, official high school diploma to go on to post-secondary education.
00:01:11.700In fact, we're finding now that the top ranked universities in particular are more likely.
00:01:21.980Well, they actually give the preference to home educated students over those from from other backgrounds.
00:01:27.640And the reason they do that is they've come to recognize what, you know, the academic studies show, which is that homeschool students are academically more advanced.
00:01:40.460They have all those character traits that you were just talking about, too, where they show up on time and they do their work and and and they deliver results.
00:01:49.020And so universities being generally private institutions in this country, even though most of them are publicly funded, you know, they set their own admission standards and they invest a lot of money in admissions.
00:02:01.260They don't want to see students who come to their institutions, fail, fail out and and not return because because it costs them money to recruit.
00:02:10.340It costs the money to engage in the admissions process.
00:02:13.200So they want students they know are going to succeed.
00:02:16.040So they generally give preference to home educated students.
00:02:19.680If you're applying as a home educator and there are many ways to do it with post-secondary post-secondary institutions, they're all a bit different.
00:02:27.120You will find, I believe, great success with applying as a homeschooler.
00:02:34.660You do not need that high school, formal provincial high school diploma to make it in this world.