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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is a very serious cellist -- Meadowmount, Julliard, etc.  Many of her friends in high school were homeschooled beginning in their teens and sometimes younger so that they could concentrate on music.

My sense is that often they got the minimum amount of education in other subjects.  Enough to comply with state laws and requirements, but not much more.  Occasionally, one of them would say something that revealed a depth of ignorance outside of music which was kind of astounding -- an inability to do much math above multiplication, not actually understanding how Congress works, etc.

Plenty socialized into the larger world but highly specialized from a very young age.  But perhaps for a prodigy on that level that result would be inevitable no matter where you went to school.[/quote]

Sadly, the same could be said of many public school graduates.  I teach remedial courses at a community college - the things my students don't know shock me sometimes.  [/quote]

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