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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]

Again, your math is suspect. You are making the assumption that 24 brand new homeschooled kids walked into your school every year for those eight years rather than students moving up through the system at a rate of about 4 in each grade. This is also assuming that those entirety of the 3% that we're homeschooling in your school's district have all decided to come back.  I have no doubts that you may have complained 200 times about a few homeschooled kids and your are misremembering it.

Schools don't really teach logic and it's well documented that we don't teach teach math well either.[/quote]

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