For 2E homeschoolers, one problem with using testing to prove academic rigor is that homeschoolers also have trouble getting College Board accommodations. If the CB has denied or given less than adequate accommodations, a 2E homeschooler will not be able to show what he knows. And even if he has appropriate accommodations, 2E kids are notorious for randomly bombing exams even if they know the stuff cold.
This is why my 2E high school student is attending the local community college. Hopefully his As in college level courses will be accepted more readily than my mommy grades. Ironically, the CC classes are *way* easier both in content and in how they grade than anything he ever did with me.
If you're homeschooling for MEDICAL reasons (leaving you outside of CB's general "box" of standard accommodations), good luck getting any appropriate accommodations at all. It took all of our school counselor's considerable guile
and my chops as an advocate to manage it.
There's a huge reason my DD never participated in talent searches or took AP tests. That's it. It's a huge pain.
The other interesting thing is that homeschooling is WAY more common among families with kids who
have medical conditions that are/can be life-threatening-- asthma, diabetes, food allergies, seizure disorders, etc.
Adding more proctored standardized testing is not a trivial matter if you're one of those people. We know.
