"But this is known to be fact."
Maybe amongst 'wingers. But, "facts" seem to be a slippery concept with them.
"Moreover, it is intuitive, if you've ever met any homeschoolers."
Not only have I met homeschoolers, we have homeschooled both of our sons. Both are very bright kids. During the course of our homeschooling, we were members of several groups who pooled resources to compensate for the fact that only a few can really span the spectrum between the arts and the sciences. In addition, the state of Texas has a wealth of material that leads to actual credits for homeschoolers.
I think I am pretty well versed with the universe of homeschooling.
It isn't so intuitive.
Even if you exclude the camo kids and the unschoolers.
For kids who have an interest in learning for its own sake, homeschooling can work very well. For kids who want to be typical teenagers, it can be a disaster. For the rest, well, it depends. It depends on the kid, it depends on the parent(s), it depends on the phase of the moon and how you hold your mouth.
Ted can probably give you many cases where homeschooling was an abject failure. Outside of camo kids or unschoolers, I can't in my personal experience. Most of the homeschooled kids I have known can do things like correctly identify when the War of 1812 was fought. Or who is buried in Grant's Tomb. But they aren't so hot in flexibility. Math and inductive reasoning is a very weak point. Spit back, they do very well. |
