On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 21:38:58 GMT, wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 05:17:05 GMT, "Siggy"
wrote:

Sounds to me like they had parents who gave a damn, encouraged their child,
and set a level of expectation that they personally followed up on. I
suspect that THAT is the common thread between home schooled children who
excel and public school children who excel rather than one educational
system vs. another.

Robert

Exactly. I live in the boonies, and there are quite a few
home-schooled kids in the area. Any talk of them doing better as a
group than public-school kids is just nuts. And it's easy to see why
if you look at the reasons many of the boonie parents don't send their
youngns' to school - 1. won't, or can't afford to drive them 15 miles
one-way twice a day to meet the bus. 2. don't want them to associate
with non-fundies....ever. 3. didn't go to school themselves, so don't
see the need. sigh Given the circumstances and attitudes, overall
success rates are bound to be pitiful.

When generalizing about groups, I don't see how statistics can be
meaningful considering how many home-schooled kids live below the
radar. In our county there probably isn't a practical way for
officials to know that the kids *exist*, must less how well they're
schooled.

Wayne

I see a post full of assumptions. Where are the test scores of those
children?

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem.
To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized,
merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas