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My 3 homeschoolers entered college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. All finished Calculus III by the age of 15, as well as all of their college general courses. Two earned B.S. degrees in math by the age of 18. One earned a masters in mathematics by the age of 20.

My children are NOT unusual. Homeschoolers are doing similarly well all across this nation.

**IF** the so-called education experts REALLY REALLY REALLY cared about kids they would knocking on the doors of homeschooler to find how they do this. They aren't. I concluded their interest in something other than how well children learn math.

Congratulations on how well your children have done! We (my wife, really) homeschooled our son until 9th grade. I use many of the lessons-learned from that experience in my own teaching. I agree that the public system could learn a lot from homeschoolers.

The $100 is what I get to teach all my students, not each. I should have been more clear. It really doesn't buy a lot of hands-on and lab materials.

I won't pretend that I can accomplish with my students what you did with your children, because I can't. I can say that one of my students graduated high school last year. I have followed him closely, tutoring him on my own time, and acting as a bit of surrogate father on occasion. He is the first person in his family to EVER earn a high school diploma... from either side of his family.

Mom, Dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles... not a one with a high school diploma, and most of them on public assistance. He won't attend college, but he does have a job. Keeping his paycheck away from the hoard of freeloaders is a different matter, but I think I helped him have a chance at a future. It's not headline news, but I get some satisfaction from it.