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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are so many homeschoolers that are behind, not to mention being overly secluded from the world. It's kind of frightening.[/quote]

And there are public schools full of kids in DC and elsewhere, where the kids graduate functionally illiterate, unable to do basic math and with minimal knowledge of science and history.

There are also scores of homeschool children who are well educated, accomplished, well socialized and higher achieving than the majority of their public school peers.

Homeschooling when done well can produce exceptional results.  The internet and homeschool coops make homeschooling a very different beast than the stereotypes you are spouting off

I can imagine very few situations which woukd lead me to decide to homeschool my children, but ai know enough about homeschooling to know that what you state is not the norm and far more likely to occur in a poor performing public school than most homeschool situations.[/quote]

This actually is not true anymore at least for public schools - don't know about charters since they aren't all accountable. Federal regulations flag kids now. The majority of these kids you talk about are immigrants who come in partway through the school system and don't speak English and are behind from the education in other countries. Also special needs students who cannot keep up. If you take these kids out of the equation, there are very few in public school who are functionally illiterate. They may not be competing at the same level of other countries but they are not unable to do basic math, science, history, and reading. We have I think a national 85% high school graduation rate? Something like that. These kids can all pass a 5th grade test. No one was saying homeschoolers are all behind. It's just that they are not flagged by anyone except the parents as being behind so we don't know how many are falling through the cracks.[/quote]

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