[meandog]

Nonsense. Even when homeschooling parents have only a highschool education, on average their kids beat the national averages. A teaching degree is almost a joke.

...I believe, if you'll do some real research, you'll find that you're comparing apples to oranges as the home-schooled kid is pitted against the public school one. Public schools are far more expansive, have a huge degree of lower socio-economic status kids and those from single-parent homes so it is unfair to draw this conclusion. Try pitting your figures against private school students. Also, you might want to check out the academic stars each year in periodicals such as USA today--you'll find that they are almost always exclusive to the non-homeschooled class.

[Oberon]

Also, you might want to check out the academic stars each year in periodicals such as USA today--you'll find that they are almost always exclusive to the non-homeschooled class.

It would be profoundly difficult for USA Today to locate and contact academic achievers among homeschoolers prior to graduation. I suspect that accounts for their lack of representation in the pages of that august periodical.

[TalonDJ]

Also, you might want to check out the academic stars each year in periodicals such as USA today--you'll find that they are almost always exclusive to the non-homeschooled class.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739696/posts

Oh, and I would not trust USA Today if they told me the sky was blue.

[Texas_shutterbug]

In fact, many universities actively seek out homeschooling students. All but the most politically correct recognize that homeschooled kids are an asset to their university campuses.