One of the benefits of homeschooling is that children are not in an environment that singles them out as “gifted”, and sets them apart in gifted enrichment classes, and honors them with special graduation awards, etc.
The child's motivation to move forward is generated by a true love of learning. They can't preen themselves before a classroom of other children, and their aren't teachers and principals to fawn over them.
One of my serious objections to institutionalizing children ( bright, normal, or dull) is that it takes them about one nanosecond to know the difference between the bluebird, redbird, and robin reading groups. They all know who is smart, average, and stupid.
Also...Children who graduate at the top of their class are often knocked off their artificially created pedestal when in college, graduate school, or in their profession they learn that nearly everyone in their field is just as smart as they are.
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Very well stated then!! I wish that I was that productive.
Your points are awesome...although I didn’t home school my kids. I just kept their head on straight while I taught them reading and math years before “the system” was going to. When old enough (around 10 years and ready for Calculus), we started scoping out college options. It was an easy transition and the kids preferred it, simply because college students are WAY more mature than government school students...even though that’s where most of them come from (I think it’s because their cliques are broken up and they’re on their own).