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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]

I'm questioning either your memory or your math. You met hundreds of homeschooled kids in your school? You do realize that the percentage of homeschooled kids is around 3% of the US, right? You'd have to teach or be near over 6,000 students before you'd have met 200 individual homeschooled kids. Given approx. 25 in a class, you'd have to teach for 240 years. [/quote]

I never said they were all my students.  I said WE encountered, as a school, hundreds of kids.  Our FCPS had over 800 students in it.  That is 24 students/year.  In the years I taught, WE encountered hundreds of students who were homeschooled and then were mainstreamed in the classrooms.  I was part of the discussions of the issues both raised by myself or teammates.  For example, when we met as a team to work on placements for the next school year, X-person's issues would be raised by myself, a teacher teaching a child under my grade, or a teacher teaching a child above my grade who had gaps as a result of being homeschooled.  We would also discuss it as a team if we were working on our lesson plans and why a particular child was struggling on something.  We would discuss it if there was a child advanced in some areas but significantly weaker in others.  I was either a party to the conversation or listening if it did not affect my core class or my upcoming core class.  I also have many friends from other schools, including those I previously taught with who moved to other schools or those who I went to school with, and they have also expressed the same thing.   So in 8 years of teaching, yes, I still stand by the hundreds - probably 200 that I heard about over those years, at least.[/quote]

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