Comments about ‘Home school win’

Oh, great. Another way to produce stupid, unsocialized kids.

It would be hard to top public school for that

I think your comments prove just the opposite. Anyone who truly takes the time to study and know home schooled kids can quickly see the differences in their curiousity, love of learning, social skills, and politeness. While teachers in the public system work hard, it is hard to give each child the personal attention the majority get in a home schooled environment. There are some exceptions of people who claim to be homeschooling and do nothing and those are sad, but the majority of homeschooled children are getting good educations. I dare you to actually go to a home school convention and talk to the kids there and then tell me that they are stupid and unsocialized.

Good work Senator Madsen. I think any parent that is willing to homeschool a child is a saint--and they should have the freedom to do it how they see best. Homeschool is not for all of us, but I'm glad to know I have the option to homeschool if I wanted to. After all I know and love my child better than anyone else.

Home school can be done right or very wrong. I have had several students come back into my classroom after being home schooled. They are so far behind and have no idea how to do simple math and writing skills. This is the majority that I have seen over the last 13 years.

On the other had I have had several students really thrive at home. Their parents have done it right and taken the time to make sure that they are learning. But they are missing important social skills that are learned at school.

If they are going to play sports then they need to meet a certain academic requirement like all of the other players.

I wonder what you would consider "important social skills", bullying perhaps?

I agree, homeschoolers should meet the same academic requirement as other players--when public school students are tested before allowing to play in sports, then go ahead and test the homeschoolers too. Until then, the homeschoolers' teachers should decide what their grades are in the subjects just as the public school teachers decide on their students.

What you're doing is judging homeschooling by the "dropouts." Would you really want *your* skill as a teacher judged by those students who went on to drop out of high school?

It's really telling that public school officials didn't solve this problem by requiring academic exams of all participants. That would have been the logical solution - if the public schools really thought their own grades meant anything.

I've never met a homeschooled student who didn't have vastly superior social skills than their public school counterparts - and I've worked in both public and private schools.