[petuniasevan]

This article is an oldie but goodie. The writer describes conditions for homeschoolers in Georgia.

Your restrictions, and the restrictions placed on your children, may vary from state to state. No surprise.

[petuniasevan]

The above is my own quote.

[Fraulein]

One of my closest friends was home-schooled from kindergarten through the 8th grade (after that she attended a private, all-girl Catholic high school). Without a doubt she is one of the most interesting, most informed, and most well-read people that I know. She was awarded a full academic scholarship to study at Notre Dome, and, after that, she received a graduate fellowship at Vanderbilt University.

[Sonny M]

To the best of my knowledge, home schoolers do better on the S.A.T.S. and the A.C.T.S. then do kids that go to schools. At least in NYS. A few of my friends are teachers and have had talks about this. The Union points out the socialization aspect to them, and hits on it alot, they also try and tell them that mostly white parents do this because they want to raise the kids racists, and blah blah blah. "Its the job of the teacher to sometimes undue the damage that a misguided parents may do". They also point out that fewer students in schools affects their budgets and salaries, it part of the reason teachers are so against it. Their union leadership will lie to them for its own purpose, I was surprised about the scores being better for home schooled kids though.

[LarryLied]

A few years back there was a lawsuit filed by a homeschooler in Georgia who aced the SAT's and was told he had to undergo further testing to get into a state college. Do you or anyone know what the outcome was?

[Calico]

Thank you for bringing this article to my attention. I am curious to know what you think of the requirement for the homeschooling parent to have a 4-year college degree--as is the case in some states. Is this a deterent or is there a legitimate reason behind it?

I will graduate college just in time to homeschool my child, but I wonder--from what I have experienced in my institute of "higher education"--if that will make me a more capable homeschooler than my child's godmother with whom I share virtually the same life experience, save her decision to stay home and mine to go to the University.

[Fraulein]

Ping!

[meadsjn]

Here's a good excerpt from the "Robinson Story" on their website:

www.robinsoncurriculum.com

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Our children must be able to think

Some Christians react to these difficulties with various forms of resignation. They hope that more families will find a way to rearrange their lives for home schooling. In their home schools, they emphasize subjects such as spelling and grammar and generally neglect more difficult subjects such as mathematics and science. They hope that by the age of 18 the children will be strong enough to resist the evils that they encounter at the universities, or else they deny the children a higher education and direct them into occupations where that education is not required.

They are comforted by the fact that they have achieved slightly higher educational performance than the public schools while, at the same time, sparing their children the depravities of the secular world for at least part of their formative years. These Christians are dedicated people and are doing their best for their children. I believe, however, that they should be thinking beyond the current home school situation.

In order to take our country back from the secular humanists - back from those who have abandoned the Christian values and disciplines that made America great - back from the evil that is destroying our society, we must do more in our home school movement than we are doing now.

Our children must be not a little better educated when compared with those in the public schools - they must be so much better educated that they are entirely beyond such comparisons.

Our children must be able to think - and to think so much more effectively than their opponents that they are able, in one generation, to become such a superior force in science and engineering and in industry and government that they dominate American society.

Our children must be such shining examples for the home school movement, that the majority of American families demand the same quality for their children - a quality that can only be obtained by becoming Christian families who take responsibility for themselves.

Our children must be such superior performers in America's colleges and universities, that they not only resist the corruption in those institutions - that they destroy, by their example, the corruption itself.

[Joe Boucher]

Try offering decent public education that isn't controlled by stupid unions. Get rid of pathetic uneducated teachers. Quit your quotas and quit bussing. Hold accountable the techers and administrators. But none of this will happen so public education for the most part sucks.