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Well you might be some kind of child prodigy or something but I admonish you to take your impressive brain and set it upon basic statistics. If you do, I think
by dinkumthinkum 13y ago
Well you might be some kind of child prodigy or something but I admonish you to take your impressive brain and set it upon basic statistics. If you do, I think you will see that you are describing (i.e. your experience) is anomalous phenomena. Most home schoolers are out there solving Fermat's Last Conjecture at age 8.
Autodidacts (even alleged ones) in this kind of discussion always try to project their Einstein level of genius on to the rest of the population to make some point about how education should be. I think it misses pretty obvious points.
- benaiah 13y agoYou're missing my point - I'm no genius, just a bit academically oriented. My brother is the complete opposite - yet he still is far above what the public schools are pushing out. My younger siblings seem to be turning out the same way. And I can personally attest to many other families that have had similar results. You want statistics, here they are: http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/200908100.asp http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/200908100.asp Homeschooled students score into the 84th-89th percentile on average. Statistically, it's unambiguously better at educating children. My comment was anecdotal on purpose, to try to show that, even in an extreme case (remote location, little social contact, mom had no college degree, no state homeschooling assistance) it still produces vastly better results than the public schools.