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The transcript template
One editable workbook, .xlsx, four years on a single sheet. You enter the course, the level, the grade, and the credit. Everything else is already in the cells: year GPAs, cumulative weighted and cumulative unweighted, total credits earned. Honors adds 0.5, AP or dual enrollment adds 1.0, and a failing grade earns no weight and no credit.
Only the cells you type in are editable. Transcripts rarely go wrong by a bad decision. They go wrong because somebody typed over a formula in March and the total quietly stopped meaning anything. That protection is an Excel feature, so if you work in Google Sheets you have to convert the file first before you can set protected ranges there (Google Docs Editors Help, "Protect, hide & edit sheets", read 25 July 2026).
Every year block has a row labeled Bible / Scripture, running through the same Level column every other course does. The workbook says out loud what it is: "The Bible/Religion row is a suggestion; edit or remove it like any course." No grade for faithfulness and no thumb on the weighting. It gets a line, the way Chemistry gets a line.
This is the same file that ships inside the paid system, byte for byte, not a trimmed version and not a watermarked preview. The free download is the Protestant edition; the Catholic transcript comes with the Catholic Records System. What it does not include: the 131 academic course descriptions, the 26 Bible course descriptions in the Protestant edition or the 30 in the Catholic one, the state requirements as a printable document, the portfolio and evaluator forms, or the guide. Those are the Records System, and they are why it costs thirty-nine dollars.
Counting a credit
One page on what a high school credit actually is. There is no federal definition of one. The 120-hour figure everybody repeats is an accounting habit going back to 1906. The Carnegie Foundation's own 2015 report says the unit "was never intended to function as a measure of what students learned" (Silva, White & Toch, The Carnegie Unit, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2015, pp. 5, 7-8, read 25 July 2026). The only federal credit-hour rule on the books, 34 C.F.R. 600.2, is a student-aid rule for colleges.
The bottom half is a table you fill in per course, with a column for the evidence you could produce if someone asked. Hours are the easiest thing to write down and the weakest thing to be asked about later. What answers a phone call from an admissions office is a folder you can go and open.
It comes in both editions, each carrying Colossians 3:23, set from the King James in the Protestant and the Douay-Rheims in the Catholic, each naming its translation.
Scripture copywork
Twelve verses, one for each month, on ruled sheets a child can write on. Wide rule gives half an inch of writing space with a dashed midline and room under the line for a g or a y. Narrow rule gives a third of an inch, for a writer who no longer thinks about where the pencil goes. Fifty-three files, because the twelve come as bound sets and again as single sheets you can pull the morning you want one.
The Protestant edition is the King James, September through August. The Catholic edition is the Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision, following the church year and using Douay psalm numbering, which runs one behind the King James for most psalms. Psalm 126 in the Douay is Psalm 127 in the King James. Each sheet names its own translation.
Punctuation is the translation's, not ours. The June sheet opens on a small letter because Joshua 24:15 reads "but as for me and my house". The capitals are real engravings, from an ornamental alphabet Jeremias Falck cut around 1645 to 1650, public domain and held by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, with the object number at the foot of each page.
Homeschool requirements, all fifty-one
Every state plus the District of Columbia, free to read: what you file, by when, what you keep, what assessment you owe if any, and the statute cited with a link so you can check our reading against the code yourself. Each entry also carries the date we last read the code. Statutes move, and a summary with no date on it is a summary nobody has rechecked.
Why we give these away
Not as ministry, and we are not going to dress it up as ministry. The paperwork side of homeschooling is where families get frightened into buying things, and adding a verse to the fear sells better still, which is exactly why we will not do it. A parent buying out of dread is a parent who resents the purchase by August.
The free things are also how you audit us before you spend anything. Read the state page for where you live, then open your own statute and see whether we got it right. And we would rather compete on what is hard to make. Copying a verse onto ruled lines is not hard. A hundred and thirty-one course descriptions in the register an admissions office reads, and fifty-one statutes reread every year, are hard.