There are plenty of government **teachers** out there who can not pass the GED ( especially the math section).
And,... as an employer, I promise you that there are huge numbers of graduates of our nation's socialist K-12 schools who can barely read and can not add two columns of numbers without a calculator. Fractions? Decimals? Long division? Subtraction? Are you kidding?
My feeling is that homeschoolers should be held to the **exact** same standards used for those kids attending our nation's socialist K-12 schools. Obviously the government's standards for promotion from grade to grade in its socialist indoctrination camps is complete illiteracy and innumeracy. So? That should be the **same** standard the government should apply for homeschoolers.
If you are curious about state homeschool requirements I recommend the Homeschool Legal Defense Association website.
Some states have no regulations on homeschooling whatsoever. Others require that parents submit portfolio of the children work for review. ( This was the case for my homeschoolers in Maryland in the 80s and 90s). Some require evaluations by certified teachers.
Overall, though, homeschoolesr score 30 or more percentile points higher than average socialist schooled children, therefore, legislators see little reason to further regulate homeschooling.
I know a government teacher who also sells crap on eBay because he claims his $80K salary isn't enough to live on and make the payments on his McMansion. He claims his taxes are killing him, but he is too stupid to realize why.
He has two degrees. His eBay descriptions are full of misspellings, bad grammar, impossible sentence structure, and wrong words. They are so bad that any of the English teachers that I had growing up would have torn their hair out.
If a homeschooled student can’t pass the GED test then something was obviously wrong with either the homeschooling or perhaps with the test.
I was fortunate that I went to an excellent public school. Although the public and BTW all girls high school I attended in the 70’s in Baltimore City believe it or not, required an application, teacher recommendations, excellent grades, zero behavioral problems to get in and to stay in. Back then it wasn’t called a magnet school and the classes I took were not “AP” as that term wasn’t in place yet but many of the classes I took were on a college level. Back when I attended a diploma from that HS would almost guarantee college acceptance or for those in the “business course”, a job with nearly any major employer in the area. In fact many I knew got jobs right after graduation with Black and Decker, McCormick’s, Bell Atlantic and I knew a few girls who got jobs with the FBI. They all came to the school and recruited seniors for jobs after graduation. Sadly they eliminated the business course sometime in the 80’s. It’s still a good school for a public school, especially a City school, but a shadow of its former self. : (