What About High School Credits

The school system requires a student to spend 180 hours (45 minutes a day for 5 days a week x 36 weeks) in one subject to earn one credit in that subject.

Each state has different credit requirements (usually from 14 to 22).

A high school student can earn 26.5 credits completing the Heart of Wisdom Four Year Plan (including Life Skills Unit Studies and a math program).

	Possible Credit Earned with HOW	Sample of credits required for graduation in seven states.
Subjects		CA	IN	KS	NH	OR	TX	WA
Bible	9	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
English	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	3
Mathematics	*	2	2	2	2	2	3	2
Science	4	2	2	2	2	2	3	2
Social Sciences	4	3	1.5	3	2.5	3	2.5	2.5
Economics	1/2	1/2	1/2	–	1/2	1	1/2	–
Fine Arts	1/2	1	–	–	–	1	–	Elective
Foreign Language	*	1	–	–	Elective	1	–	–
Physical Education	*	2	1/2	1	1	1	1.5	1
Health	1/2	–	1/2	1/2	1/4	1	1/2	1
Occupational or Career or Voc Dev.	4 or Elective	–	–	–	Elective	1/2	–	1
Electives	see Occ above	–	8	9	7	–	7	6.5
Total	26.5 or 17.5 w/o Bible or math	14	19	21	19 3/4	22	21	19

*not included in HOW must be supplemented. Most colleges require 2 Foreign Language credits.

Record Keeping

You can keep records of your students work with points. Count each 45 minutes to one hour as a point. One credit is equal to 135 points. If you assign your student an essay on the Roman Empire it could be counted as points. If (s)he spends weeks at the library and gathers dozens of sources, you would give assign the appropriate points. Likewise, if (s)he only threw together a few paragraphs or does much less than you were expecting, record the points accordingly.

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