Don’t believe everything you read.
Our son will be graduating from a public school this summer and will be attending the Honors College at Michigan State University, and was offered the chance to study under a professor. Good grades and high scores can come out of both types of educations, if the student applies themselves.
If it shows up on:
News Busters, Patriot Room, Drudge, World Net Daily, etc.
I tend to believe them especially when reading the article first hand in the newspaper located in that town or city.
My younger child graduated first in her class, with a 4.0+ GPA, with 12 AP courses with an average score of 4.5 on them with enough credits to walk into most universities a second semester sophomore. She was offered over 750,000K in scholarships at universities across the nation. She is a Christian, an athlete, a state-ranked musician, and a public school graduate and attending the Honors College on Long Island.
Great kids can come from a variety of educational institutions. And kids from public schools are not necessarily mind-numbed liberal dullards. Much depends on the parents and the family and the church they attend.
I respect all kids that do well.....regardless of how and from whom they were taught.
In education it is impossible to do controlled double blind studies on children, especially one child.
So.....No one can know how your son might have done if he had had the freedom to homeschool and follow his interests at a quicker pace.
My own homeschooled kids were in college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. They finished all college general education courses and Calculus III by the age of 15. The two younger had B.S. degrees in mathematics at 18. The oldest of these two earned a masters in math at 20. The youngest will graduate with not only her math degree ( at 18) by will earn her second degree as a chemical engineer at about the same age when her classmates are being awarded their first.
One of the reasons that I pulled my children out of government school was the principal and teacher flat out refused to believe that my first grader was reading on the 4th grade level and doing 3rd grade math.