I teach college government.
The BEST students are homeschooled and Asian.
Have a friend that home schooled their children. Oldest one received a full scholarship to Texas A&M and got a degree in Mechanical engineering. Now works for Chevron. That says a lot about home schooling in my mind.
Homeschool ping!
I raised my kids in the Mira Mesa area of San Diego. The Asian community is a significant percentage. There is a culture of sitting at the kitchen table and finishing homework each day after school. The net result is very high academic achievement. I'm not Asian, but my sons benefited from those same cultural practices. My middle son finished with a 4.33 GPA and scores of 5 on his AP exams. A good example was set and followed. There is no free lunch just by virtue of breathing the same air in the classroom. The benefit was sharing the common value that regular effort to excel academically pays off.
I must admit there was some homeschooling. I corrected all the math, English and science papers because the public school teachers failed horribly in that regard. I spent time teaching math and physics skills to my sons that weren't happening in the public school classroom. My middle son embarked upon fluency in Spanish. His fluency is good enough to represent real estate clients in legal proceedings to help them understand and communicate their needs and responsibilities.
“The BEST students are homeschooled and Asian.”
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Were the Asians all homeschooled?
If they weren’t it seems to prove that non-home schooled kids can also do well.
Mixed message here.
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I homeschooled all three of mine and all three entered private, big name universities being accepted in their honors programs.
They also all had stellar SAT/ACT scores and GRE scores.