One of the most ubiquitous problems home school families face is providing professional-grade transcripts for students looking to enter college or begin a career path. In desperation, many parentsenroll their kids in high school, hire someone to concoct the necessary documents (usually for too much money), or take community college courses before going off to "real" college.
It doesn't have to be this way. Inge Cannon's Transcript Boot Camp on DVD contains everything you need to keep sound records, condensing into four hour-long DVD lectures the content of her popular travelingTranscipt Boot Camp seminar. The workbook/syllabus and two DVDs are to be used together as parents learn how to grade students' work, handle extracurricular activities, and enlist students themselves for the record-keeping task.
Educational jargon is one of the biggest prohibitors of good transcripts. Parents can't navigate all the lingo, don't know what a credit is or how many their kids have earned, or turn what should be a one-page document (at most a two-page document) into a portfolio—with the result that they muddle the whole thing and abandon it as a hopeless cause.
College-bound students can't afford the risk of a poorly-executed transcript. Mrs. Cannon (with a lifetime of education at every level behind her) easily cuts through the jargon and confusion with clear explanations, taking all the fear out of record keeping. She answers all the big questions, like "Why should I include my child's Social Security number?", as well as less obvious ones, like "What is a Carnegie credit?"
Turns out there's things you'll need to know you probably haven't even heard of. But that's no reason to worry. Just watch the DVDs, read the accompanying book and fill out the forms, and you and your student will be ready to put their middle school and high school education on paper for the powers that be to be impressed by.
Cannon urges parents to begin early (around sixth grade), and to have them actively involved in the process. She also explains why you even need a transcript in the first place, and what good it will do your student in the future. Even students with no definite plans beyond high school ought to have a record of what they accomplished, and this simple course will help you keep one with as little stress as possible.
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