About
We make records and paperwork for Christian families teaching at home. Transcripts, course descriptions, attendance and reading logs, portfolio indexes, and the state law sitting underneath all of it. No ministry behind us. What matters is whether the files hold up when a college or an evaluator opens them, so here is how to judge that without taking our word for anything.
We are not a homeschooling family, and we will not pretend to be
The usual opening on a page like this is a kitchen table, a verse hanging over it, and the year everything nearly came apart in October. We cannot write that honestly, so we will not borrow it. Better to say so on the first page than have you notice the gap in month three and wonder what else here was arranged for effect. We are Christians. We are not raising children at home.
What we are is stubborn about documents. Fifty-one sets of rules, one for every state and one for the District of Columbia, and they do not hold still. Reading a statute carefully and building a spreadsheet that does not break are the whole of this job, and neither one requires having taught your child. Where a question belongs to your family and your pastor, we stay out of it.
How to check our work
Every state summary carries the statute, a link to the source we read it in, and the date the table was last read. One date covers the whole table, and in the current pack it is 24 July 2026, printed on the first page where you can watch it age. Open the law beside our summary and see whether we read it correctly. If we got it wrong, you caught us in about a minute, which is the reason the citation is printed at all.
Ohio is the one that still catches people. House Bill 33, the 2023 budget, replaced the old assessment scheme with a notification-only rule at Ohio Rev. Code 3321.042, effective 3 October 2023 (codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3321.042). Much of what a search still returns describes the older regime, and ours will go stale the same way eventually. Our state pages are not legal advice. Check your own state before a filing deadline.
Public domain translations only
Scripture in our files is the King James in the Protestant editions and the Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision, in the Catholic. Nothing else. No NIV, no ESV, no NLT.
That is honesty before it is licensing. Every file we sell is editable, and we tell you to edit it. You may well swap a verse header for the translation your family reads aloud at breakfast, and we cannot hand you a document under somebody else's permission terms and then tell you to change it freely. So we ship text nobody has to ask about, and we print book, chapter, verse and translation at every quotation.
Bible was a real subject in your house, so we book it like one
Where Scripture is daily work rather than an extra, with real reading and memorization behind it, it earns a line on the transcript. The description that goes with it is one an admissions reader can take at face value. Twenty-six such descriptions in the Protestant edition, thirty in the Catholic. Each is written in the register a registrar reads, then handed to you to make true.
Underneath all of it is one rule: the record tells the truth. Mark a course Honors when the year genuinely went deeper than a standard one. Do not write AP unless that course was authorized through the AP Course Audit. The audit is the only thing that grants the word: "For each authorized course, College Board grants permission to use the 'AP' designation on student transcripts" (apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-course-audit/about/course-authorizations, read 25 July 2026). Family devotions can carry an elective half credit when they were sustained and documented, and not otherwise, which is partly why the pack holds a devotion schedule and a reading log.
The transcript is a working spreadsheet, not a picture of one. Weighted GPA, unweighted GPA and total credits all calculate from the grades you type in, and the formula cells are locked, all 183 of them, so a stray keystroke in April cannot quietly wreck the arithmetic.
What we will not do
No subscription. You buy the thing once and keep it, and corrections to something you already own come to you. No countdown timer and no seats-remaining counter either. If you are reading this in August, it will still be here in September.
No guilt, and no frightening you about the world in order to make a sale. If a page here ever preaches at you, we have failed at our own job, which is paperwork. Distinctives belong to the edition you choose, and we will not fudge a doctrinal position to widen a market.
No kitsch. The illustrations are public domain engravings, chosen one at a time, with repository, object number and rights statement written down before anything ships. The bird is an ortolan bunting, etching and engraving by Jacques de Fornazeris, around 1580 to 1590, Rijksmuseum RP-P-2000-21. Look at the breast: stippled in short flicks, which is the thing a generated image cannot fake.
The name
The wren stands in for the sparrow of Matthew 10. "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father... Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows" (Matthew 10:29, 31, KJV). The psalter is the daily song and the honest record of ordinary days and hard ones. A transcript, done properly, is close to the same kind of document.
If something is wrong
Write to support@wrenandpsalter.com. A person reads it. If something you bought does not work for you, say so within fourteen days and we will refund it, no explanation needed. Find an error in a state page and we will fix it, cite the correction, and reissue the pack to everyone who owns it.