Colleges and universities are going to have to educate themselves on the growing numbers of homeschoolers who will be attending in the coming years. For one thing, the 'carnegie unit' idea so often used by colleges is turned on its head in homeschooling. Most colleges assume a 'carnegie unit' to be equal to 180 hours of schooling. A study was done in the last year or two to see how much of that time was actually spent in LEARNING. The study assumed 1080 hours of schooling; equal to 6 courses in a typical high school year. From that 1080 hours, the study backed out time spent in changing classes, administrative tasks like taking attendance, picking up and returning papers, homeroom, lunch time, and even absenteeism. It was determined that only about 365 hours of that 1080 total was spent in actual direct instruction or 'learning'. That equals about 60 hours per course!!
If you compare that to the time spent in an average college course over a semester, you'll see that the time spent in a college course is very close to that spent in a high school one. Figure 3-4 hours a week in class in a typical 18 wk. semester, and you have from 54 to 72 hours spent on the college course. To my mind that DOES equal a high school credit!
Many colleges like to see community college courses on a high schooler's transcript because it gives them an idea that the student can handle college work, but also that the student has been able to do work in an actual classroom with other students.
I don't understand why the college is reluctant to allow college credit as well as high school credit for a community college course. If the student had taken an AP class in high school, that student would be given high school credit for it, and if the AP test grade were sufficient, would also be given COLLEGE credit for the course.
I do not disagree with your premise. It is very accurate when one considers the extraneous filler now used in public schools. As far as granting college credit along with high school credit for the same course, that was college specific. Wash U would not give credit for more than 15 hrs taken pre-matriculation, but would not make one take the same class twice and would grant a masters degree concurrent with the bachelors using the same college coursework. Several of the Ivies to which she applied would not take anything or even give prerequisite credit. The colleges would take AP credit, but based upon the score on the AP exam, not on taking the AP (college) course.
Some states, North Carolina for one, are required to accept the community college credits.