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Originally Posted by traxx
I gotta agree with Cuatro here. Homeschooling is hit or miss just like any other method of education. Midtowner you seem to be coming from a place of hostility and/or maybe jealousy toward homeschoolers as you are very defensive about it.
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Actually no, I'm just pointing out that the facts presented by pro-homeschool groups regarding academic achievement are quite skewed.
I found that 183 number on a pro-homeschool site a couple days ago. I'm shooting myself now for not linking it. But even if you double the number to correct for the SAT (which again would be generous) you're only looking at 30% max college bound as opposed to 69% from public schools.
All that I can come up with shows that homeschooling is more miss than hit.
For some kids it does seem to work better. For most? Probably not. It would be difficult to quantify what's going on with those other kids academically because obviously, their parents for whatever reason don't believe in testing and aren't submitting their kids for a college-bound curriculum.
It's of course impossible to know whether or not those kids are taking the GED, so whatever the "real facts" are, I'm not sure anyone knows/wants to know.