[AntiGuv]

I would also posit that these factors play a role: (1) home school parents have often had a great amount of leeway in choosing whether to test and which tests to administer; it's only in recent years that states have moved to require equivalent testing, and unevenly at that; (2) as states have begun requiring equivalent testing, most also require that poorly scoring home school students enroll in school (public or private), which obviously removes them from future home school testing averages; (3) private/parochial schools also skew toward students with greater aptitude,* and so that amplifies the performance gap between home school students and public school students alone even more so.

* This beyond the socioeconomic and demographic advantages, due to selective enrollment and selective retention.

[sirchtruth]

What do these factors matter? If the kids are smarter and still believe in God created and evolution is just a belief system your argument is bogus no matter what testing is done?

I don't neccessarily buy into these posited theories. There are way too may kids in school that just can't read, write, an add much less form theories about evolution.

It's simple, stop trying to make excuses, evolution should be only taught as hypothesized conjecture as well as any other religion.

[Timmy]

I would also posit that these factors play a role: (1) home school parents have often had a great amount of leeway in choosing whether to test and which tests to administer; it's only in recent years that states have moved to require equivalent testing, and unevenly at that; (2) as states have begun requiring equivalent testing, most also require that poorly scoring home school students enroll in school (public or private), which obviously removes them from future home school testing averages; (3) private/parochial schools also skew toward students with greater aptitude,* and so that amplifies the performance gap between home school students and public school students alone even more so.

It's no wonder you spout ignorance about evolution, a subject on which you are probably as clueless as about homeschooling.