If you’ve been a successful home schooler, you’ve already won.
But I tend to agree with the posters who believe this young lady should not ‘go off’ to college.
Taking some classes and commuting would be fine.
There’s nothing in this article that indicated that this girl would be *going off* to college.
That’s simply a strawman some constructed and used to attack homeschoolers.
From what I recall, most colleges have age restrictions for living in dorms anyway so even if the parents wanted to, they likely couldn’t send her off to college.
Homeschoolers are not the ignorant of the world types that some here are trying to portray. No way any homeschool parent would send their child to live in a dorm at college.
Taking some classes and commuting would be fine.
And you also might make note that other posters are not opposed to that either, as I noted in Post #125 ...
Well, there's no question about it ... if one were to maintain that kind of "control" over (let's say) the young 13-14 year old girl... in which they were dropped off for a specific class, someone waiting for them in the library during that time, and picking them up right after class, and driving them home -- yep, they would be supervised quite adequately.
The issue here, as I see it -- is that no matter whether homeschooled or not, no 13-14-year old girl should be in any situation like that, in that kind of environment, unsupervised -- without someone directly and immediately before class dropping her off, and immediately after class picking her up -- for each and every activity and/or class -- no matter what. The supervision, in that environment should be direct, immediate and pervasive.
And from that post, I was saying that the mother who did that with her own kids was doing the right thing.
No matter whether a 13-14 year old girl is supposedly more socially capable or not -- that's not the environment for her to be in, unsupervised -- without having someone directly looking over her for every class and every activity.
And so, once again -- it has absolutely nothing to do with homeschooling, actually -- it has to do with not having a 13-14-year old girl in that kind of environment without that kind of direct supervision.
You'll also note what I said about homeschooling in that same Post #125 ... :-) ...
I don't have a problem with homeschooling. I think it's preferable for parents to give their kids a proper "worldview" that derives from what the Bible teaches in the Word of God. And that can be done in homeschooling, while that's impossible in public schools.