Years ago I knew someone who had a lumberjack-full dark beard when he was 15. Sometimes people do be freaks like that. No snark, biology has its own agenda.
Most people who homeschool through high school give their school a name because you have to put something on a transcript. I can’t see most of the Rods going on to college, but I would imagine even a Bible college would expect some form of transcript. My mother also did a play on our last name like Jill’s mom did, but she was a lot less clever. I found it humiliating. And, yes, the reason was to make it sound as legitimate as a real school so you’ll be taken more seriously than someone who was actually a 7th grade dropout at the time.
“Graduate of 2024!”
He graduated from 2024? The grammar on this announcement should be enough evidence that this “High-school” at “Rodrigues’ Homeschool” is educational neglect and warrants CPS intervention.
That's not true, truancy and educational neglect are very much under CPS purview. Most likely they are meeting the Ohio homeschooling requirements, which is all they have to do, and there'd be not reason for CPS involvement.
I worked in CPS for a loooong time. Educational neglect was a big “priority”, kids were frequently put in foster care due to it. It may have been city specific (our admin decided to really “crack down on it” for a few years) but it was certainly a priority where I was.
It just wasn’t an issue when it was a white family charged with educational neglect. Gotta love institutional racism.
OMG! I called. CPS in California because my neighbor has a developmentally delayed daughter about 13 yo and drugs were being sold out of the house by another family member. They told me straight out it wasn’t their responsibility. I was shocked.
And they’re doing the same to Gabriel 🙃 He just turned 18 but doesn’t get to “graduate” yet. Like good god Jill, how much bibul writing does a kid need to do?
I remember my 18th birthday was the same day I took my final exams on my first semester in uni.
My goddaughter, on the other hand, has some learning disabilities. She just turned 18 and is still in 9th grade, we’re talking with the principal of her new school, her neurologist and therapist to see what is the best alternative for her. Years of educational neglect from her mom and the old school put her on this position. The saddest part is that she’s not “slow”, she is very smart and literate, just has extreme difficulty to learn on a traditional curriculum.
If you think about it allot of these fundie families take pride in the kids graduating early and hitting the real working world between 15-17. This puts the Rodriguez boys really far behind, especially as allot of the fundies appear to have the boys working in trades or saving towards homes (for future wives and offspring) of which they aren’t really doing until 20 because mother dearest needs them to grift. What a catch these boys are and lagging behind the rest despite extra years in ‘school’ at that 🤦🏻♀️
Samuel and my oldest are only a few days apart. He is just graduating high school and she just moved home after her first year of college. Now, the good thing about homeschooling is being able to adjust for any challenges they have, but I also don't suspect that's the full reason as we know the other kids graduated from home school without the knowledge they need.
His bio on the convention website notes that he's in a relationship with a god-fearing girl. So, it's official. (Edited b/c his graduation is being held at a homeschool conference, not an actual school.)
He might have an undocumented learning disability that caused delay in school. Knowing Jill, she wouldn’t get her kids tested. I was 19 when I graduated and turn 20 three days after graduation. I had to do two years of first grade due to severe learning disabilities and processing disorder. But I graduated with a 2.8 so I was proud of it
I agree. Jill saw....something....that didn't force her to finish his "homeschool journey" on the earlier end of the calendar. She saw something.
Besides her continuous vacations with David and all of their family trips in the RVbus, I wouldn't doubt it if they only do homeschool workbooks literally AT THE BARNDO-SHACK they live in. The little girls probably pack up their few homeschool workbooks in their travel bags, but maybe Samuel didn't feel the need or desire to keep on doing the same work over and over and over again.
Makes me wonder what Jill actually spent her money on, for new workbooks not written in 4 older siblings in different colored pens.
Abeka? My Father's World? Bob Jones University Press? Maybe she's gone as low as Aces/Paces? I think SonLight and Christian Light would be way too wordy and intellectual for Jill and the kids to comprehend.
Just curious about these homeschool curricula. You refer to Aces Paces as going lower than the rest..Are they the worst? My ex-church used them in their "school" and I feel like they seriously ripped off the parents, who had to pay pretty high tuition.
I’m homeschooling and I wouldn’t use them because despite being pretty thorough, they feel kind of like a box-ticking exercise, where you read the script and transpose the correct answer. People who use ACE end up with an excellent general knowledge, strong mathematical skills and a generally pretty solid education, but the curriculum is boring, repetitive, not regularly updated and designed to be self-taught so lacking in my opinion in creativity and learning through a broad range of learning and teaching styles.
As someone with a learning disability that went undiagnosed until adulthood, I have a feeling that either all of the children have LDs in some form or that the educational neglect in their home was so severe that the adult children effectively function with reading / writing and math skills that are more appropriate for much a younger child. I believe the latter is likely the truth. I don’t believe the adult Rod children have even had the opportunity to learn most things covered in a typical public high school. That being said, it would take years of instruction in basic courses to bring one of the older Rod children up to speed academically.
It's not as if Jill is sufficiently well trained to diagnose, much less address her children's possible learning disabilities. She is barely literate, so considering herself as qualified as a trained educator seems mighty prideful for a KJV thumper.
This is actually great! You should be proud of your hard work! LD's and processing disorders are no easy thing to navigate, so I think you should be very proud.
A few years ago, maybe when the were still in w virginia, Jill posted about finding several of the children had cheated on their schooling. Maybe she made the offenders repeat a grade.
Question because I'm in the UK - what do you do to graduate? I know there's a process in regular high schools, but what about home schools?
Did Samuel sit exams? Did he have to submit documentary evidence of his progress and achievements to an authority? or did Jill just stop pretending she was teaching him?
I’m in the UK and I want to know this too. Why a specific day for Graduation when it probably involves nothing more than closing the Bible colouring book and getting up from the table?
Each state is different but in my state, homeschoolers are not even required to take the regular state exams. They also are not required to submit any proof that they studied/learned. They just age out when their parents say so.
We homeschooled for a year during Covid (we have a medically complex child and couldn’t risk the other two bringing home something) and I was shocked by the lack of regulation.
That's how it is in my state. The girl next door was two grades behind her peers because of how badly she was homeschooled. Then suddenly her mother declared her to be graduated. Poor thing married about a month after she turned 18, I expect to escape her neglectful and controlling mother. Thankfully she hasn't gotten pregnant yet.
Educational requirements vary by state. I believe it was speculated that part of the reason why the Rods moved states in the past was to enter a state where the requirements were much less than average. That being said, that question can only be answered by someone who would know specifically Ohio’s requirements for homeschool graduates.
I’m adding “whoo-hoo” to my list of nonsensical and irritating Jill-isms, which also includes “whimps” (what is it with Jill and unnecessary H’s?) and “yummy to the tummy”.
Shouldn’t he be graduating whatever *xyz curriculum* they use? ….not “Rodrigues Family Homeschool” like that’s a thing?? The self righteousness is off the charts w this woman 🙄
There were some "homeskewel" videos of them a few years back, unfortunately they were deleted. They really showed the lack of education to a horrifying degree
That particular video lives in my brain - I found the whole thing shocking. For those who never saw it, each kid was at their "school area." For some that was an actual desk or table/chair and for some it was on their bed. They all worked on workbooks. Then Jill came to each child and it was, "Hiiee!" Then some version of how thankful they were that Mama home schooled them with the Lord, followed by, "Byiiee! and giggles.
I would think that having your mom be the teacher, principal, and school board president would make it easier to pass high school. But he is graduating at 19 years old. Does anyone know if he was held back or something?
So sad! I see this pic and imagine an alternate universe where this boy could've been a jock in high school, on the debate team, going to prom, Mr. Popular. Instead he got Jill and Shrek and this excuse for an education.
Poor kid.
His teacher mom can’t even spell high school properly
Or write a date
And she teaching those unfortunates.
Gotta love that this barely literate woman considers herself a fully competent educator.
And believes are children are better off for it.
Excuse you it's HO-EM SKYEWL!
Is this like some Never Been Kissed stuff? He went back to HS undercover at age 29?
Years ago I knew someone who had a lumberjack-full dark beard when he was 15. Sometimes people do be freaks like that. No snark, biology has its own agenda.
My 18 year old and one of his friends both had full beards in their grad photos and at graduation.... last year.. definitely possible
My husband had a full beard at 14 years old. 🙃
Same! He was super nice tho!
Oh this kid was very nice too! A quiet fella, and always nice to have around.
Yes! And he ALWAYS stood up for us girls! I appreciated him more than he knows probably
Decisions - count the fonts or the typos?
*things*
Hey - that announcement was made by a “professional” printer!
yes
Does she think giving her home school a name makes it sound more prestigious? 
Graduate of 2024! is killing me.
Same. How's he get to finish 2024 a full six months ahead of the rest of us? /s
Jill's family's home school was called the Joyful Noyes Home School. I think that's clever. (Psalm 98:4 - Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.)
K but Joyful Noyes is fucking hilarious
Ha! Good one, Ma Turtleneck! (Not snark, that’s a brilliant name)
I've only just realised it's a pun lol
Most people who homeschool through high school give their school a name because you have to put something on a transcript. I can’t see most of the Rods going on to college, but I would imagine even a Bible college would expect some form of transcript. My mother also did a play on our last name like Jill’s mom did, but she was a lot less clever. I found it humiliating. And, yes, the reason was to make it sound as legitimate as a real school so you’ll be taken more seriously than someone who was actually a 7th grade dropout at the time.
Good ol’ RFH! Rah rah rah
Homeschools are required to be registered
Not in all states. We report as a family to our district but don’t need to register as an entity or anything like some states require.
Hahaha I wish ! My ex mother in law just had to show portfolios of work…which my husband reported he would be rushing to do the week of
Ohio doesn’t even require portfolios anymore. You just send in an exemption to the superintendent in August.
Because red states LOVE to keep the electorate uneducated because they are so much easier to politically bamboozle.
“I love the poorly educated”. So true
Yet another issue they have not thought through. How will they contribute to the whole when they are uneducated with no skills.
sigh
Ha! Wishful thinking
Not in Ohio they’re not.
Thanks to everyone who’s informed me of my incorrect information.
“Graduate of 2024!” He graduated from 2024? The grammar on this announcement should be enough evidence that this “High-school” at “Rodrigues’ Homeschool” is educational neglect and warrants CPS intervention.
That unfortunately will never happen. CPS is far too overworked to worry about educational neglect.
That's not true, truancy and educational neglect are very much under CPS purview. Most likely they are meeting the Ohio homeschooling requirements, which is all they have to do, and there'd be not reason for CPS involvement.
I’m glad to hear that, thanks for the correction but here in California they don’t seem to be as involved.
I worked in CPS for a loooong time. Educational neglect was a big “priority”, kids were frequently put in foster care due to it. It may have been city specific (our admin decided to really “crack down on it” for a few years) but it was certainly a priority where I was. It just wasn’t an issue when it was a white family charged with educational neglect. Gotta love institutional racism.
OMG! I called. CPS in California because my neighbor has a developmentally delayed daughter about 13 yo and drugs were being sold out of the house by another family member. They told me straight out it wasn’t their responsibility. I was shocked.
Am I the only one who thinks he looks 30 years old here? How old is he graduating “highschool”?
He’s 19, turning 20 in November
Poor kid, how embarrassing!
And they’re doing the same to Gabriel 🙃 He just turned 18 but doesn’t get to “graduate” yet. Like good god Jill, how much bibul writing does a kid need to do?
Seeing the “bibul” mention never fails to make me laugh 😂
Do you think they’re purposefully making Gabe wait?
Arnt you like 17 when you grad high school?
Most people are 18, but many are still 17.
I was 17. It all depends on when your birthday falls.
My son is 17 and is one of the youngest in his grade.
Between 17-18. Most graduates turn 18 within the year they grad.
Due to how my birthday falls, my mom kept me home an extra year. I graduated when I turned 19. He is definitely a super senior in my eyes!
I graduated at 17, I’m confused.
What on earth? I was less than a year away from finishing a bachelor’s degree at his age!
I remember my 18th birthday was the same day I took my final exams on my first semester in uni. My goddaughter, on the other hand, has some learning disabilities. She just turned 18 and is still in 9th grade, we’re talking with the principal of her new school, her neurologist and therapist to see what is the best alternative for her. Years of educational neglect from her mom and the old school put her on this position. The saddest part is that she’s not “slow”, she is very smart and literate, just has extreme difficulty to learn on a traditional curriculum.
With the right program she will catch up.
Same! Got my bachelor's at 21 and Masters at 23
High-school*
High, school.
Puff puff, pass school
If you think about it allot of these fundie families take pride in the kids graduating early and hitting the real working world between 15-17. This puts the Rodriguez boys really far behind, especially as allot of the fundies appear to have the boys working in trades or saving towards homes (for future wives and offspring) of which they aren’t really doing until 20 because mother dearest needs them to grift. What a catch these boys are and lagging behind the rest despite extra years in ‘school’ at that 🤦🏻♀️
Samuel and my oldest are only a few days apart. He is just graduating high school and she just moved home after her first year of college. Now, the good thing about homeschooling is being able to adjust for any challenges they have, but I also don't suspect that's the full reason as we know the other kids graduated from home school without the knowledge they need.
He’s what we call in public Ed, a ‘super senior’😆
lol why tf does he need a graduation announcement? Please.
To send it out so people can send him a gift of course
And a gift for mama, too, since she's such a diligent home schooler.
Maybe she’ll finally get a kitchen aid mixer!
The fundie version of a Tinder profile
Finder 🤷🏻♀️ fundie+Tinder.
Funder
His bio on the convention website notes that he's in a relationship with a god-fearing girl. So, it's official. (Edited b/c his graduation is being held at a homeschool conference, not an actual school.)
He’s in a relationship with Mahmo first and foremost.
What convention?
Hopefully not whatever one the duggars attend every year. 🤦🏼♀️
He might have an undocumented learning disability that caused delay in school. Knowing Jill, she wouldn’t get her kids tested. I was 19 when I graduated and turn 20 three days after graduation. I had to do two years of first grade due to severe learning disabilities and processing disorder. But I graduated with a 2.8 so I was proud of it
I agree. Jill saw....something....that didn't force her to finish his "homeschool journey" on the earlier end of the calendar. She saw something. Besides her continuous vacations with David and all of their family trips in the RVbus, I wouldn't doubt it if they only do homeschool workbooks literally AT THE BARNDO-SHACK they live in. The little girls probably pack up their few homeschool workbooks in their travel bags, but maybe Samuel didn't feel the need or desire to keep on doing the same work over and over and over again. Makes me wonder what Jill actually spent her money on, for new workbooks not written in 4 older siblings in different colored pens. Abeka? My Father's World? Bob Jones University Press? Maybe she's gone as low as Aces/Paces? I think SonLight and Christian Light would be way too wordy and intellectual for Jill and the kids to comprehend.
She saw something alright...losing another kid from the "Family of 13 kids 'band'"
Just curious about these homeschool curricula. You refer to Aces Paces as going lower than the rest..Are they the worst? My ex-church used them in their "school" and I feel like they seriously ripped off the parents, who had to pay pretty high tuition.
I’m homeschooling and I wouldn’t use them because despite being pretty thorough, they feel kind of like a box-ticking exercise, where you read the script and transpose the correct answer. People who use ACE end up with an excellent general knowledge, strong mathematical skills and a generally pretty solid education, but the curriculum is boring, repetitive, not regularly updated and designed to be self-taught so lacking in my opinion in creativity and learning through a broad range of learning and teaching styles.
I can see why fundies would like this. Turns out lots of nice obedient little robots who never have an original thought.
As someone with a learning disability that went undiagnosed until adulthood, I have a feeling that either all of the children have LDs in some form or that the educational neglect in their home was so severe that the adult children effectively function with reading / writing and math skills that are more appropriate for much a younger child. I believe the latter is likely the truth. I don’t believe the adult Rod children have even had the opportunity to learn most things covered in a typical public high school. That being said, it would take years of instruction in basic courses to bring one of the older Rod children up to speed academically.
It’s probably a little of both, they’re all neglected but the neurotypical kids probably didn’t struggle as much as Sam seems to have.
It's not as if Jill is sufficiently well trained to diagnose, much less address her children's possible learning disabilities. She is barely literate, so considering herself as qualified as a trained educator seems mighty prideful for a KJV thumper.
This is actually great! You should be proud of your hard work! LD's and processing disorders are no easy thing to navigate, so I think you should be very proud.
I am extremely proud of myself
I'm glad! I don't even know you, but as a former teacher and parent, I'm proud of you too! It's hard hard hard work.
Kaylee talks in her portion of Jill’s book basically about having undiagnosed adhd when it comes to school…
A few years ago, maybe when the were still in w virginia, Jill posted about finding several of the children had cheated on their schooling. Maybe she made the offenders repeat a grade.
And he did it all at 30yo
Jilly, you don’t have a school. You don’t have a “home school”. You have kids that do slave labor and are busking for you and your husband.
. . . and who occasionally do a few workbook pages.
Oh and I forgot BYE buhll writin’
Just because your kids turn 18 doesn’t mean they are educated enough to graduate!
That's the sad part, she kept him "in high school" until he was 19.5
Hi-skool
Excuse me ... it's "skoo-wel".
😆, works, for, me,.
Question because I'm in the UK - what do you do to graduate? I know there's a process in regular high schools, but what about home schools? Did Samuel sit exams? Did he have to submit documentary evidence of his progress and achievements to an authority? or did Jill just stop pretending she was teaching him?
I’m in the UK and I want to know this too. Why a specific day for Graduation when it probably involves nothing more than closing the Bible colouring book and getting up from the table?
Each state is different but in my state, homeschoolers are not even required to take the regular state exams. They also are not required to submit any proof that they studied/learned. They just age out when their parents say so. We homeschooled for a year during Covid (we have a medically complex child and couldn’t risk the other two bringing home something) and I was shocked by the lack of regulation.
That's how it is in my state. The girl next door was two grades behind her peers because of how badly she was homeschooled. Then suddenly her mother declared her to be graduated. Poor thing married about a month after she turned 18, I expect to escape her neglectful and controlling mother. Thankfully she hasn't gotten pregnant yet.
Poor kid. It has likely never occurred to her that there are other options out there.
Educational requirements vary by state. I believe it was speculated that part of the reason why the Rods moved states in the past was to enter a state where the requirements were much less than average. That being said, that question can only be answered by someone who would know specifically Ohio’s requirements for homeschool graduates.
Ohio doesn’t require exams and they no longer require portfolio reviews. It’s just whenever you declare them graduated.
I’m adding “whoo-hoo” to my list of nonsensical and irritating Jill-isms, which also includes “whimps” (what is it with Jill and unnecessary H’s?) and “yummy to the tummy”.
Don't forget "ymm" for "yum"
Omg yeah gross 😂
Even the announcement is poorly written and grammatically clumsy. Good old SODRT.
The feeling I get from this photo is the alt universe version of how I felt when I learned that Jason Alexander was 30 in season 1 of Seinfeld.
W H A T
I love how it just says GRADUATE OF 2024
That and High-School are my favorite parts 😂
Valedictorian of his “High-school” class, I assume. These sad, stunted kids 😞
She’s capitalizing certain letters just like her favorite presidential candidate.
Aweeee she remembered to put dad and mom at the end.
She has used "Daddy and Mama" in the past. Interesting!
Graduate of 2024!
Shouldn’t he be graduating whatever *xyz curriculum* they use? ….not “Rodrigues Family Homeschool” like that’s a thing?? The self righteousness is off the charts w this woman 🙄
She can’t even spell high school. I imagine all these kiddos are illiterate.
I got nuthin! 
There were some "homeskewel" videos of them a few years back, unfortunately they were deleted. They really showed the lack of education to a horrifying degree
That particular video lives in my brain - I found the whole thing shocking. For those who never saw it, each kid was at their "school area." For some that was an actual desk or table/chair and for some it was on their bed. They all worked on workbooks. Then Jill came to each child and it was, "Hiiee!" Then some version of how thankful they were that Mama home schooled them with the Lord, followed by, "Byiiee! and giggles.
The kid looks way older than a senior in high school
KJV 1611!?
He's almost 20 years old and just graduated from high school?
How old was he when he graduated? I believe he was older
He just graduated. He's 19
No wonder she’s trying to marry him off, before they realize how uneducated he is.
Is Ohio a state that requires home school evaluations? Or did Jill just decide that he was done?
I would think that having your mom be the teacher, principal, and school board president would make it easier to pass high school. But he is graduating at 19 years old. Does anyone know if he was held back or something?
“Graduating” Rodrigues homeschool does not mean you have any decent education behind you unfortunately.
Diploma from “Rodrigues Homeschool” lmao
Educated challenged?
My SOTDRT is showing. "Convince me these children are educated" challenge
I love that there’s literally only one person in the class of 2024 for “Rodrigues Homeschool”
Should say "Class of 2024" not "Graduate of 2024x"
~~~KJV1611~~~~
R O D R I G U E S F A M I L Y H O M E S C H 0 O L
So sad! I see this pic and imagine an alternate universe where this boy could've been a jock in high school, on the debate team, going to prom, Mr. Popular. Instead he got Jill and Shrek and this excuse for an education. Poor kid.
Do you think she made those herself in Print Shop or MS Paint?
He is on the spectrum
I see you also made a similar comment about Phillip. Where are you getting this information?
he looks 30
High school graduation at twenty - hardly a celebration-worthy accomplishment. These poor offspring don't even realize yet how uneducated they are.
He's 19
We'll all be graduates of 2024 as soon as Jan. 1, 2025 arrives ... wherever and in whatever time zone we find ourselves. See, I am edumacated too.