Public schools are child abuse!
Kids should be learning Calculus by age 12.
To make the state of Washington look good they rolled the academic scores of home schooled kids into the total state score. If they hadn’t then WA scores would have put the state near the middle to lower standard.
Our 29 yo daughter was home schooled and attended (by scholarship) college at 16, traveled all of Asia by herself (on her nickel) at 17 & 18 and is currently leading a full filling and successful life as a responsible adult.
Public school is only slightly better than a felony offense committed by the government.
Public schools, for the most part, train children to ignore their parents, and then they claim that parents can not possibly provide the “proper” socialization. Meanwhile, the kids who end up shooting their classmates are somehow “properly” socialized?
This has not been “news” for a number of years but the observation does need to be put in front of the citizenry often.
1) Indoctrination into becoming a "victim", and living ONLY at the benevolance of Government forcing others to pay you way
2) Inner-city tribal parasites have no one in the home intelligent enough to teach
My home schooled son is attending USMA at West Point. He is a senior, with honors now.
When applying, I asked the supe (3 star general) how West Point liked home schooled kids. His response...we love them 10 percent of the student body was home schooled. Probably higher now.
For full disclosure, my daughter did one year at a community college, and is now starting as an academic scholarship at Drexel University for biomedical engineering and has been invited to join the Penoni (spelling?) honors program.
My final son swims for the local high school team but is home schooled too.
We yanked our kids out of elementary school when the district adopted Mathland — no fractions, no long division, etc. We have never looked back, and my wife and daughter are currently writing a book about our experiences...
We live in one of the top school districts in the state of PA. Our school taxes are obscene.
All is going as planned by the adherents of The Frankfurt School (including public schools and teaching schools, teacher unions. government, media and churches).
Yay for my team!
Surprise, surprise,....Yawn....
Sorry, but the public school system is a wasteland. I urge anyone with kids to put them in either a good private school, or parochial school, or home school.
hslda.org is a good homeschool site. they provide legal help, too.
Why is this excerpted?
No doubt, home schooling is also good for the parents’ brains as well.
Thank you to everyone who have shared their experiences in response to the article. As you can see, I am very enthusiastic about the benefits of home schooling.
Home schooled children are on average more than one academic year advanced beyond their age-peers in pubic school. I heard one economist lecture at the London School of Economics showing that every year of education regression translates to a reduction of over a trillion dollars of GDP.
On August 21, 2013, the ACT test results showed that only 5% of black high school graduates are ready for college. Putting aside how many black children drop out, it now costs over $2 million to graduate a single college-ready black student who has a high enough ACT score that he can be admitted to college without remedial instruction.
The public (government) school system is horribly broken. The easiest way to fix it is to give parents permission and the means to send their children to any school of their choice, including for-profit private schools.
We no longer have the prosperity or resources to put up with anything this wasteful of money or lives.
OK, I got you all beat. I know a home-schooed kid who at the age of 12 was awarded a full ride to Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Seriously, but this kid is major league genius. My home schooled kids are all normal. One is 23 and living in another state on her own. My 20 year old is going to join her next year. My 17 year old is doing joint high school, community college, robotics and completing his Eagle Scout project this weekend. Finally, my 11 year old is complaining about having to do dishes.
Public school curricula is designed to create unimaginative functionaries who possess no critical thinking skills.
This is terrible. Perhaps home schooled children should be required to eat lead-based paint or something.
Someone who just got a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science at Princeton reports that all the really smart kids, the ones who are way ahead of their peers, were home-schooled.
Makes sense. The big classes in public schools hold the kids back. They have to move at the rate of the slowest student.