[Timmy]

For its 1999 competition, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation selected 137 homeschoolers as semifinalists, and their numbers have steadily risen each year. In 2004, there were 250 homeschooled students selected as semifinalists.

Shazam! My [homeschooled] daughter was a National Merit Scholarship Finalist [winner] this year.

[Little Bill]

A big congrats. One of the arguments that those of us that support the Home Schooling movement puts foreword is not that kids are stupid nor are their parents but that kids are not challenged enough.

Children are learning machines, they have brains like sponges, put them in the right environment and with in their capabilities they will learn anything that is tossed at them.

My own Great grandfather had an eighth grade education, read, wrote and spoke three languages, English aside and he was native US, God forgive me that I should have to say that, read until he dropped.

It is not the kids it is the system.

[sitetest]

Dear Timmy,

"Shazam! My [homeschooled] daughter was a National Merit Scholarship Finalist [winner] this year."

Wow! Cool!! Give your daughter my congratuations, from one National Merit Scholar to another (although mine was a little bit of a while ago. ;-) ).


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