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"....studies have shown the longer they are home taught the higher the test scores"

Are you making these stats up, or do they actually exist somewhere? Please let me know....I am very interested in them.

Of course, even if what you say is true, which I think it very possible, it doesn't address the main problem with the statistic - homeschooling self-selects for higher achieving kids - so how much of the performance is due to kids being naturally motivated to learn (with an enabling family environment) and how much is due to homeschooling.

I will reiterate, I am FOR homeschooling, but I think in order to properly advocate for it, you need correct and true information, including statistics. If you have 'em, please share 'em. The ones made available thus far are flawed.

While I think it's likely that it could be true that brighter kids are more likely to be homeschooed and that that could skew the statistics; it's also true that homeschooling does improve their scores. The benefits of a one-on-one education cannot be beat. My kids are far more competent in all their subjects than I was at the same grade level. I'm convinced that it is because when they get stuck on something, we can spend time and go over it and figure out different ways to make it make sense. Something public school teachers just do not have the time to do. Since they master the subject material before they move on, they aren't getting lost by trying to learn something that is being taught that is building on something they don't understand. That's where I got lost in school, especially in math. I got confused over fractions and nothing after that made sense. Now that I've homeschooled, *I* have a better education. I have now learned all that stuff that they tried for so many years to cram down my throat that I refused to learn. I had to learn it in self defense. My kids are much smarter than I and I couldn't be prouder of them.