Do you have any studies supporting this? Do you have any studies showing that home school students earn more money, are more mentally/ emotionally stable, or perform better in college?
This is my personal anecdotal observation from having worked with the public for 30 years, spent many years teaching Sunday School, tutoring for our church, and the past 3 years as a cub scout leader. A Stanford University professor did e-mail me and told me that studies have *never* been done that evaluate the amount of learning acquired from "afterschooling". My bet is 99.99% of what a child learns is due to afterschooling and happens IN THE HOME!
Do you have any studies supporting this? Do you have any studies showing that home school students earn more money, are more mentally/ emotionally stable, or perform better in college?
Yes, these studies have been done regarding homeschoolers who are now adults. Adults who have been homeschooled are far more likely to vote, have higher levels of post high school education, are far less likely to be divorced, are more likely to be married and have children, are volunteers in the community at significantly higher rates, and they simply couldn't find any homeschoolers who were on welfare...zero!.
http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/Socialization.asp
By the way,...I find it appalling that we spend up to $30,000/ year/child for socialist-entitlement schooling and NO ONE knows if it is effective in the least. Without measuring the contribution of afterschooling NO ONE can say, one way or the other, if government school teach anything at all!!!!
Teachers constantly tell us that parental involvement is critical to a child's academic success. And you now want someone to provide evidence that parent's afterschooling their children makes a difference? What's with that? Are all those public school teachers lying?
Wintertime isn't just making those comments on her say so. The public education establishment has been stating that for years.
And since when is a one on one education not superior to a classroom setting?
All three of my kids were homeschooled and they are excelling/have excelled at college. And you know why? Because they know how to study and teach themselves, and they are motivated instead of being used to being spoon fed data and being expected to regurgitate it back while someone is holding their hands. They know how to think for themselves.
That alone answers your questions. That's why they will earn more money, be emotionally/mentally stable, and preform better in college.