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.
We pulled two of ours out of a parochial school when it dumped Saxon Math in favor of a system that was opaque and required the teacher to explain every step. The teachers didn’t like Saxon because a child with moderate intelligence could teach himself from the book without intervention from a “teacher.” I don’t know about Saxon now since the family had to sell it away to a mainstream publisher due to inheritance taxes.
When you can’t homeschool, what do you do?
When your spouse says ‘no’, are you going to divorce your spouse? Or are you going to work full time, then school your child/children also?
When your child is in a private school which is forced to abide by Common Core, what are you going to do when your spouse says ‘no’?
Which conservative value are you going to choose? Marriage or homeschooling? You can’t have both when you’re working full time and your spouse won’t cooperate.