[pabianice]

""children don't always get the rigorous structure and up-to-date educational techniques, which are applied in public schools..."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks. I needed that.

[Jen]

Homeschool ping.

[cyborg]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo this is better than drinking coffee.

[Ogmios]

Sounds like common sense to me, homeschoolers have always scored higher, and always will score higher.

They are independent thinkers, the pariah of the public school system.

Gotta love this stuff, it makes the Career educators nuts...

[netmilsmom]

Help. This article has started an fight in our house. My hubby says that the vast majority of students in the country are Public Schooled. I say that that trend is greatly changing. More kids are homeschooled, charter schooled and private schooled. He says no way. Does someone have the stats on this and how many of these kids go to college?

[Poser]

The NEA needs to read this.

[Reagan79]

"A National Home Education Research Institute study found that the typical homeschooler's academic achievement easily tops that of the typical public-school student."

duh! Not a big surprise there. My pastor is home schooling his children and he and his wife are teaching them the classics. They are very well skilled in rhetoric, latin, advanced mathematics, history, and literature. His children range from the age of 10-16. As a product of the public schools I did alright and I am working on a master's of divinity right now. I however realized that much of my time in school was wasted. Much of that is of course my own fault. The best two years of my schooling was when I lived in Egypt and attended a private school.

When I am married and have kids I will definitely be severely hesitant to send them to public schools.

[dawn53]

Lots of homeschoolers in our area start college at 15. My son is enrolled at 15 and doing just fine.

Here's the program we use. Best news, tuition is free.

http://www.spcollege.edu/ac/dc/#DC

[mtbopfuyn]

Not arguing most homeschoolers are getting an excellent education, but I do have a problem with such young kids going to college. College is a whole 'nuther world and they should be able to experience it as a young adult, not as a child/minor.

[ladylib]

These poor public school officials. They worry so much. It breaks my heart.

[TalBlack]

Private individuals can do a thing better than the government?

There's a newsflash for ya'.

[SpookBrat]

Thanks for the thread.

"On the other hand, he worries that "children don't always get the rigorous structure and up-to-date educational techniques, which are applied in public schools."

His worries are unwarranted and not welcome. I really don't appreciate the arrogance of others "concerned" about my children. Up-to-date educational techniques aren't working, btw. LOL Duh!

Have you read any of John Gatto's books? He says public education cannot be reformed. He says throw in the towel. Give it up. Removing children from their families never worked and it will never work.

Of course, I guess Democrats can say it has worked just fine for them. They have millions of uneducated robots keeping them in power now.

[Gal.5:1]

Education at home bump. My kids love unabridged audio books (literature and history), hands on science, art, music and languages. They love to write stories, draw maps, collect nature, care for "pets in a jar" and build things. That's just in the afternoon.

[narses]

Ping.

[Aquinasfan]

"children don't always get the rigorous structure and up-to-date educational techniques, which are applied in public schools."

I think he meant to say "rigorous beatings."

[MortMan]

On the other hand, he worries that "children don't always get the rigorous structure and up-to-date educational techniques, which are applied in public schools."

I'll leave the "structure" to be commented on by others, but...

Homeschoolers deliberately avoid the "up-to-date" educational techniques - We'd rather use a teching technique that works!!!

[HighWheeler]

"See the problem [with home schooling]? Robert Rader does. He's the executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education."

Here's more proof that home schooling is simply substandard and such a glaring failure. You just can't afford an "Executive Director of a Board of Education" at home. How can a kid possibly learn anything without The Standardized Massive Institutional Bureaucracy™ ?