[GSlob]

"Then I proudly wear the label of "Squeaker". - Truly you continue parroting/squeaking 'homeschool, homeschool". OK, take a cracker. In my # 15 [had you taken the effort to comprehend it] I was addressing the question of what it is [or could be] so special about the homeschool, and whether it is possible to transplant that "it" into other settings, possibly with greater success. I diagnosed that "it" as the student segregation by ability. To implement it on a reasonably broad scale in the US, one would have to start with a radical reinterpretation of the USSC Brown decision.

[wintertime]

Truly you continue parroting/squeaking 'homeschool, homeschool". OK, take a cracker. In my # 15 [had you taken the effort to comprehend it]
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Specifically, which points in my messages #26 and #64 are invalid, and why?

#64 speciffically, answers your question about why the successes of homeschooling techniques can not be duplicated on an institutional or factory-like scale.

I also have a few questions for you.

1) What about a child with an IQ of 139. Do you say to this child, "Sorry, your IQ isn't 140. You're only ordinary!"

2) What about the child with an IQ of 160? Does he get held back by those children with an IQ of 140? Do you bore the 160 child to death, or do you frustrate the 140 child by forcing him to keep pace with the brighter child?

And,,,,a final comment:

All the young adults in the university math program that my children attended likely had IQs higher than 140. If they didn't they would not have been able to do the work.

GSlob, you are in the big leagues here on Free Republic. Using the insults of "parroting/squeaking",and "OK, take a cracker ", or picking at syntax is not about to win points here.