You miss one critical point, Mr. Hope.
Homeschoolers aren’t the ones who have something to prove. If homeschooling is completely ineffective, the only people affected are homeschoolers and their children. However, if the government system is broken, all taxpayers are being forced, on penalty of losing their homes, going to jail, or other penalties, to fund a broken system.
I think I saw you mention that one of your problems with the methodology on the study was that about 60% of the surveyed responders were homeschoolers whereas we make up closer to 4% of the population. That’s actually not a problem. We aren’t comparing the groups in a way that requires statistical representation. What we’re comparing is outcomes, and for that, we want percentages of the discrete populations. That is, if we compare homeschool versus government school graduates for “percent who become felons”, we don’t have to first ensure proper statistical distribution. If we were trying to determine “raw number of homeschoolers versus public schoolers who become felons”, then we might care about the distribution.
http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/HomeschoolingGrowsUp.pdf - this is from the HSLDA and so you probably rejected it (or is this the same study wintertime already posted?) but it’s pretty good, I’d say.
This was posted for hftr on another thread and received a condescending, snarky response. And of course, was also rejected as not being good enough.
SAT/ACT homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200105070.asp
Standardized test scores homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp
The end of the Standardized test scores section has a litany of studies done by public schools that show the results of the success of homeschooling.