We have a huge home schooling community here. Those kids are mostly intellectually head and shoulders above the public schooled kids of the same age. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part the home schooled kids are just dang smart. I've known a whole lot of them and every single one has finished high school. All but two of them have gone on to college as well. Of those two one had a learning disability (and was still able to keep up with public schooled kids) and the other just didn't want to. Whether or not public schooling is to blame for the high dropout rates home school seems to be a pretty good solution to it from what I can see. The one downside is that they're generally pretty awkward when you get them outside of their comfort zone of other home schooled kids.
Interesting and unrelated anecdote: The Kansas state champion high school chess team for the last several years has been a family of home schoolers from Wichita. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319470 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
