[SLB]

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[dawn53]

Or, as Sarah, a slight brunette in worn jeans and house slippers, put it: "The colleges can't just look at your grades -- they might be suspicious of an A your mom gives you."

Cute thing for her to say. But unfortunately you might also be suspicious of an A that a public school teacher gives.

[anniegetyourgun]

"The scores were sort of a surprise and a validation of home-schooling," she said. "Home-schooling has made me a better person. It gave me a love of learning. But I felt the good scores also showed that I had a quantitative measurement of what I'd learned."

Most public school peers of this young lady wouldn't even understand what she said in this paragraph. Proving once again, that homeschooled kids are significantly more adept in language skills. I think it is safe to say that most graduates of public high school today cannot speak, write, read, or comprehend correct standard English.

[LiteKeeper]

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[jmc813]

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[SuziQ]

I know the Jedis are still young, but check out this thread!!

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Great story! I'm in the process of prepping my home schooled children to be National Merit Scholars. I should say that my kids want to be NM Scholars! My ninth grader is working like crazy to bring his vocabulary up. He can already get an 800 on the math.

I only wish my oldest son had tried harder (prepared) because he came close with his scores on the PSAT. I just found out that there are colleges that will give you a full scholarship if you are a National Merit Scholar. When my ninth grader found out, he hit the books, lol! He actually wants to do all of his regular school work by Christmas and then prepare for the PSAT for the rest of the year. We'll see if he actually does that...not likely, lol!

Candi

[petitfour]

We recently began homeschooling several of our children, and I am very interested in homeschooling stories. Do you follow a packaged curriculum? Or do you design your own? Do you use the same materials for each child? About how many hours a day are spent homeschooling? (the reason I ask is that one of our children who attends school came home yesterday with a load of homework, AND she spent six or so hours at school doing schoolwork. the child has little time for socializing at school and zero time for unwinding at home due to homework. our homeschooled children are so much more relaxed.)

I could go on and on with questions, but will stop. We have neighbors who are homeschooling, but their children are young like most of ours. I am most concerned with the college preparatory years.

[Moby Grape]

And I will bet that the STUDENT spending for home schooled kids is one tenth was so-called "public" schools spend.

[scouse]

two chapters of calculus, three of the book Brave New World and four Bible chapters

Not a very good curriculum by today's standards. I do not see anything concerning "The Women's place in the Trojan Wars" or "Finger Painting 101" :^))

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Homeschool bump

[Lurker]

St. Charles ain't rural by any stretch of the imagination.

It's one of the richest suburbs of Chicago, at least the western suburbs anyway. Wayne IL may have more money per capita, and Geneva wouldn't be far behind.

I know, I live near all of them.

I'm not knocking the fine lady who perservered and home schooled her children in the Peoples Republic of Illinois, but this reporter is an absolute moron for calling St. Charles a 'rural' community.

The closest rural community out our way is Sycamore and that's a good 70 miles from Chicago at least.

Oh well, what can one expect from a Sun Times reporter....

L