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Perhaps that is the small sampling you are encountering?  When I taught elementary school in a variety of different grades, we encountered many home schooled children both in my classes and in the classes of my teammates.  I can't remember a single one - ever - who did not have some gaps.  I'm guessing this would be hundreds of children that I encountered or my teammates did over the course of a great number of years.[/quote]

But surely there would be gaps under any circumstances, just because the children did not have the specific curriculum that your school used? So children from other schools (public or private), would also have gaps. And if children from your school went to a different school, they would also have gaps. Or maybe those aren't the kind of gaps you're talking about?[/quote]

No question there were gaps when a child would come from another state or a private school into public.  The gaps with the home schooled children were far greater, however.  Many home school families do student driven studies.  So if a child is interested in American history, they may focus a lot of studies on that.  One could see how that could leave out other parts of history, other subjects, etc.  Our good friends went from private to public starting in 6th grade because their beloved private school wasn't getting the job done.  They had paid a lot of money from k-5th grade and then at the end of 5th grade her daughter took a math exam to see her level and she was at a fourth grade level.  The child was considered the at the top of her math class, but for those test results.  My friend pulled her daughter out, put her in remedial classes the summer before 6th grade and she then spent the year of 6th getting caught up through 6th grade work.  [/quote]

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