I don’t know any homeschooler who had to take the GED. Homeschool is a legitimate school option. You don’t need a specific program at all. We randomly pulled together many different curriculums plus read books from the library as our education. This DIY method is more useful for real life than institutionalized school, from all I’ve seen. Just follow local state laws on homeschooling and you’re good. I was homeschooled under a cover school: my parents filled out a transcript template on what I did, we ordered a diploma that the cover school signed, I took the ACT, got into a local college with a merit scholarship, graduated with honors in an engineering discipline and half way though college started my career at a well-known defense company. Homeschooling is the best path. There’s no luck about it.