“Don’t home-schooled kids always win the Spelling Bee nowadays?”
I think they are all Indian Americans.
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Your points about homeschooled kids make sense in that most are the products of stable, two parent families that are committed to raising their kids. These families rarely are on drugs or into crime or divorcing or etc., all the negative things that can badly affect a child.
Also many, not all! are Christians or Christian oriented, so there is the church attendance and reinforcement.
There are exceptions and variations, of course, and home schooling is not a panacea, anyway. It is just a result of parents who sacrificially give it up for the best of their kids, and there is an obvious fruit from that.
But as for you comment of wealth, ha ha, you are way off. Among the many things homeschooling parents give up is MONEY. I’ve known but a handful of wealthy homeschool parents. Do you not realize that we give up the yearly full time income of one parent for decades in order to home school? Virtually all the families I’ve known have one (or no) car, don’t own a home, don’t eat out, wear hand me downs, have no real vacations - well I make it sound miserable, and it’s not, but trust me, we are NOT usually wealthy in any American view of the term.
My son just got his first cell phone (at age 19). We’ve never had cable. Anyone who wants anything electronic has to earn it and pay for it (my kids work, from babysitting to housecleaning to soccer reffing to fast food etc., from the time they are like 13. Younger than 13 collects recycling for pin money). No allowance, I never bought anyone a car. If they want a drivers license they have to pay for all the courses and etc. They have even had to pay for their own lap tops even though they use them educationally, especially for college, and speaking of college, they have paid their own way through grants, scholarships, saved money, work, and loans. We sign for any loans, but they pay them. There is no college fund.
That said they have all gone to college so far, and early, too. Because normally, homeschooling produces remarkably capable kids.
If you can’t home school, you can’t, and your kid may end up very competent and great. I’ve seen it. But there is no question that homeschooling your kids, usually, is really good for them.