Originally Posted by
crewdawg
You still haven't answered the question. I too am very interested in this...I only know what I have seen in college. I knew quite about 5-6 hime schooled kids in college (my freshman roommate was one), and aside from academics, they didn't do well at all. They were the kids that never wanted to hang out, always went home on the weekend, and were socially awkward. It seems as if most of their parents were trying to shelter them from "the real world"....like bullies, dating, jerk, etc. So when they go to college it was a HUGE culture shock. All they knew was interacting with their parents and their church groups.
crewdawg,
I too have seen overly sheltered home school kids become overwhelmed at college, but that happens to plenty of public school kids as well. In addition I have also seen homeschool kids excel and enter college at 16 through the running start program that we have here. By the time they are 18 and graduated they could have two years of college paid for by the state .
Homeschooling is not the best for every situation. However I would like to mention that in the history of the human race children traditionally were educated and socialized by the parents. It has only been in the last 200 years that sit down instruction in mass came into existence.
To me the school yard situation is unnatural and does not accurately prepare one with the real world either.
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