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[quote=Anonymous]I don't look down on them, I just think we are different. I think HS itself is not negative or positive, it's all about the way the parents go about it.

I have a friend who homeschools her two boys up in Canada.  The oldest has cystic fibrosis, and I think when he was diagnosed, she went through a paradigm shift in a sense when she was looking for answers everywhere.  The boys are now 12 and 10.  The oldest is somewhat of an academic whiz, takes college-level chemistry classes online, writes books, plays an instrument, an all-around very academically advanced kid.  But I think that's just his nature.  The younger boy is just now developing a love of reading, but he is more of a rough-and-tumble, outdoorsy kind, very different from his introvert brother.

For what it's worth, I think HS can be very effective in the younger years.  Let's face it, it would take YOU way less time to teach your child to read than it would take a teacher in a classroom of 30 young kids.  Think of how much time it would save where you can go outside, see a play, take music classes, and do something developmentally interesting.  K level instruction just moves at a very slow pace, and individual teaching would be done with a day's worth of public school lessons in an hour.  Then you still have all day to do things.  Of course, this changes as the kid gets older and subjects get more complicated.  [/quote]

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