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These are schools in which testing is mandatory for entrance and they only take the top 2 or 3 percent. Basically X-Treme Cherry Picking out of a study population of over a million. These kids are filling the specialized high schools.

I'm very familiar with these "specialized" schools. Basically, they're a means to take the brightest kids and put them into an environment where teachers can practice "super indoctrination" on them. These kids come out parroting some of the most inane liberal garbage you have ever heard, and they think that they are "wise" beyond their years doing it. No thanks.....

Our state requires that we test our homeschooled kids every two years. Our seventh grader is taking his test this summer - his GED. This will free him up to study more medicine and science, which are his interests. We are also in the process of CLEP'ing him out of a lot of the entry-level college courses ---- And BEST OF ALL, he doesn't get social indoctrination doing it (In fact, he refers to high schools around town as "indoctrination centers").

P.S.: It's not that our son is so incredibly smart, it's that the school system is so incredibly dumbed down. That is why you see the foreign students coming in and taking over the top spots in the pecking order. Most of them come from countries that actually TEACH their students skills rather than propagandizing them with Michael Moore's latest escapades...

My own homeschooled kids entered college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. All three finished all of their general college courses and all three levels of Calculus ( calc III) by the ages of 15.

The two younger graduated from our leading state university at the ages of 18 with B.S. degrees in mathematics. The older of these 2 recently finished a masters degree in mathematics.

The oldest is an internationally and nationally ranked athlete. Because of his heavy training and travel schedule he chose to major in accounting. By the age of 19 he was a mere 13 courses shy of a degree when he left for a 2 year church assignment Eastern Europe. He returned completely fluent in Russian, is competing again in his sport, and is close to finishing his degree.

Also, like you, politicket, my children are not any smarter than the children of the other posters on this board. It is just that homeschooling is so efficient. The children never spent more than 2 hours in formal homeschooling, although my day was about a total of 5 hours.