[mtbopfuyn]

Not arguing most homeschoolers are getting an excellent education, but I do have a problem with such young kids going to college. College is a whole 'nuther world and they should be able to experience it as a young adult, not as a child/minor.

[netmilsmom]

That was part of my hubby's statement. Our local Community College will allow 10th graders to attend. Our Charter School ends in 9th grade. He says they will not be mature enough to go to college.

[dawn53]

So far, I'm observing that college is a much less "dangerous" place than high school.

Take for instance my 15 year old.

He has classes every day at the local college. He gets dropped off, he gets picked up.

While I'm sitting in the car waiting for him, I've observed that college kids, on this particular campus at least, come and go individually. I never see kids in "groups" or even "pairs" for that matter.

Everyone seems to be there to go to classes, not to socialize.

Compare that to the local high school peer dependence, and peer situations, plus the length of time that is spent during the day at class (high school probably 30 hours a week, college 15 hours a week) and this college seems a much better atmosphere for an education.

As far as subjects, I don't think College Algebra, Oceanography, Composition, or Spanish are too controversial. And if they do introduce controversial subjects in certain classes (and I've warned my son that this will probably happen), he can come home and discuss them. His comp teacher assigned three pieces of reading during the first week. One was by Andrew Sullivan and discussed gays in American society, but my husband and I made it a point to read the article as well, and discussed it with our son. (not that the gay lifestyle hasn't been discussed before because some of our neighbors are gay.) Unlike high school, he won't be getting sex ed from an instructor with bias.

His friends are other kids his age that come over to our house to play pool, or neighborhood kids that play football in the park across the street.

Truth be told, I don't want my child to have the normal "college experience". I've had too many friends send their kids off to college, and the normal "college experience" involves drinking themselves into a stupor and having unprotected sex.

I want him to go to college for an education, not for an experience.

[Domestic Church]

My father graduated from a university at 16 and passed the NY bar at the age of 21 with a perfect score (after first entering medical school.) He was educated in a small private religious boarding school which essentially was tutorial by the small size of classes, not classroom oriented as we think of classes. This approach was the preferred way of educating for centuries. Also home education goes back thousands of years and has been the standard and the backbone of civilization. It is only our brainwashed, NEA influenced culture that thinks it is abberant.

[FourPeas]

I was dual enrolled in college and government school when I was 16. The atmosphere was completely different than high school -- in a good way. For the most part, students were there because they wanted to be, not because they were told to be. Although most of my classmates didn't know I was 16, those who did treated me with respect. My experience, as a child, was a positive one.