Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments What happens after home schooling for PG kids?

I think that most of us don't know enough homeschooling families to draw any kind of statistically significant conclusions. The homeschooling families I know for the most part are families who either homeschool for religious reasons or because they simply want to avoid having their kids get lost in large classrooms where they receive less personalized attention. One of my friends homeschooled her dd in one grade simply because she didn't like the teacher that year. I've taught religious ed weekly to third graders for more years than I can count and my students have included quite a few homeschooled children - most of whom were well-behaved polite high performing students compared to my other students. I can't draw any conclusions about homeschoolers in general from those I know but instead think that perhaps that for many of us who aren't homeschooling families, the hs families we have contact with most likely have something in common with our own families hence we see one particular group of homeschoolers and not a broad spectrum.

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