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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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Kids that have been home schooled
Hi, I am looking for information from other parents that home schooled their Navy son/daughter. My son
has been home schooled since 6th grade and he is trying to join the Navy, but they are saying they can not verify his transcripts. Every class he has taken has been through a certified school. His first two years of high school was at a Catholic home school which is accredited, then he took an online course through Florida Virtual, and lastly he was dual enrolled at a college. But they are saying that can't verify his credits. Does anyone have a similar story or has a child that was home school yet was still able to join the Navy? Any help would be appreciated.
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Permalink Reply by Mom2aSailor on
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My daughter was homeschooled from K-12. She had 1 1/2 years of college when she went through the process of enlisting. We live in NY and we report to our local school district, they had her transcripts of her grades and classes, plus the one year of college was submitted to the Navy. We had no problem at all with her getting credit. She actually went in as an E-3 b/c she had enough college credit to qualify for E-3.
My guess is that the recruiter does not know much about homeschooling or the rules that apply to homeschoolers. We had to print out the qualifications and hand them to our recruiter and then he got on board and figured it all out.
Here is a link for the Tier 1, 2, 3 education qualifications. Here is one link... http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/a/enleducation.htm
and another
http://home.roadrunner.com/~milhmschlhq/military_enlistment_require...
I hope this helps!
Jenn
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Permalink Reply by MMM on
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Thanks Jenn, I ended up calling the Home school legal defense association. The lady their told me what I did wrong, and what to do know. Hopefully there should be no problem. He has worked to hard to be told no to the military.
Again, thanks.
Mary.
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Permalink Reply by bluesunshyne on
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I was homeschooled through all of high school and part of elementary school. I didn't have much of a problem with either of my recruiters with getting it approved. The first time they had me type a transcript for them, but I also ended up going to see the CO at MEPs and he told me my recruiter should have brought me sooner because he can waive the transcript or whatever. I also have a high school diploma AND a GED which I gave them copies of both. If your son's recruiter isn't sure what to do have him call the CO at MEPs or at least to call MEPs.
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