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Originally Posted by JC
Not to be cocky but I'm sure I'm one of the most educated people on this board and consequently I know a lot of people who are very successful academically. The thing most of them have in common is parents who helped and encouraged them academically when they were younger. By all means your should teach your kid on your own in addition to whatever school they attend, but homeschooling starts kids off a step behind in my experience.
JC
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Too bad about your experience. Mine has not been the same. I have known at least 100 homeschooled kids over the course of my life so far, and their levels of proficiency, adaptability, and capability are on average far better than the hundreds of public-educated people I have dealt with over the same time period. Again, my observations are consistent with national-level statistical results.
I don't normally talk about what I do for a living, but there is a distinct possibility that I am more integrated into academia than you are. For whatever that seems to be worth.
"Off" socially is a completely subjective measure. How many high school graduates today appear to be "off" socially? Depends on who you ask, doesn't it? It has been referenced in a round-about way earlier in the discussion, but I think we all know that stats between children and parents are highly autocorrelated. This has all sorts of implications, even when looking at the issue strictly subjectively, as most people tend to do.
Obviously, I would not be so informed on and interested in this topic if I had no personal experience with it. ;-)