Well, I didn't say that 99% effectively educate their kids. I said that they want their kids to be educated. Two different things.

Though I would also say that while 99% of the parents of kids in traditional schools want their kids to be educated, that's not happening either. The majority of the public school kids in our area are not what I would call well-prepared. In our area, IMHO, homeschoolers are in the lead on this one. That's probably partly because so many gifted families choose to homeschool because there's nothing--not even enrichment pull-outs--until 4th grade.

So maybe I'm just in a really great homeschooling community, but this is the position from which I am operating.

I did say they were assumptions. I cannot prove it. I'm not going to try to. <shrug>

I freely admit that not every homeschooler is doing a fabulous job. (Thus #5 and #6 are on my list.) Under the circumstances, that wasn't where my focus was.

Last edited by Kriston; 08/24/10 07:36 PM.
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