“What is a like demographic pool ?”
Compare a population of kids from homeschool families and public school families - where both are 2-parent familes, same income ranges, and same educational attainment.
These would be “like demographic pools” for statistical purposes.
Comparing white, 2-parent middle class parents with college degrees with a pool of single parent, poor families with GED’s would yield an irrelevant statistical comparison (for deciding which type of education is “best”)
RE: Comparing white, 2-parent middle class parents with college degrees with a pool of single parent, poor families with GED’s would yield an irrelevant statistical comparison (for deciding which type of education is “best”)
But that is exactly the point of home schooling -— PARENTS BEING INVOLVED WITH THEIR KID’s EDUCATION EVERY DAY.
I doubt if there are ANY home schooled kids who are in poor, single parent households.
In other words, the study comparing home schooled kids and public school kids on average is BY NECESSITY, and BY DEFINITION, going to be selected PRECISELY because these kids belong to this narrow demographic.
Why do these parents not send them to public schools in the first place? I would say that it is because they can’t find a satisfactory public school near where they live.
I suspect that if you compared the test scores of home schooled kids to the test scores of public schools near their area and not a wide swath of public schools, you would still see homse schooled kids doing better.
And this is not an argument for or against home schooling or public schools, it is simply an argument for THE NEED FOR DISCIPLINE and STRONG FAMILIES, but you already know that.