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"All academically successful children are homeschooled. Academically successfully schooled children have parents who do everything before or after school I did academically for my kids."

I think I understand what you are saying....and if so we agree at least on this point.

But then you say:

"By the way,,,,,I have never met a fat homeschooler who has been homeschooled from the beginning.

Also,,,,,I have never met a homeschooler with ADD or ADHD who has been in the home from the beginning."

Come off it.....So now public schoolers are fat, lazy, unfocused, as well as stupid?

These statements are unsupportable.

Academic excellence can be found in homeschool, public school, and private school environments.....You are far better off advocating for homeschooling with valid statistics and facts.

I'm just trying to find the data.

"By the way,,,,,I have never met a fat homeschooler who has been homeschooled from the beginning.

Also,,,,,I have never met a homeschooler with ADD or ADHD who has been in the home from the beginning."

RFengineer,

This is my personal observation of the few hundred homeschoolers I have known.

Scientific discovery does begin with anecdotal personal observation. Perhaps this phenomena will catch the interest of those qualified to study the matter.

I suspect that the reason homeschoolers are not fat and do not have ADD or ADHD is due to the large amounts of highly physical playtime that is available to them. Also,since they have an opportunity to fully concentrate on a play activity for many uninterrupted hours, they learn how to concentrate and stay on task. Honestly, how can a child learn sustained concentration skills if he is interrupted every 30 minutes?

When children's lives are run by the clock, the message taught is that the bell or clock of the adult master is more important than the project they are working on.

But then you say: "By the way,,,,,I have never met a fat homeschooler who has been homeschooled from the beginning. Also,,,,,I have never met a homeschooler with ADD or ADHD who has been in the home from the beginning." Come off it.....So now public schoolers are fat, lazy, unfocused, as well as stupid?

Saying that one has never met a fat, ADD, or ADAH homeschooler does not also say the converse, that all public school kids are. I'm trying to think of any homeschoolers I know that fall into that category and so far, no. And we've homeschooled for 12 years and been part of 3 different support groups. Not exactly a valid study but I can't disagree with it in my experience.