Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT

[The_Sheff]

partially right, partially wrong. obviously great parents will make for a solid student.

BUT, homeschooling even students that would otherwise become poor students even with a decent parent. is due to a few reasons. #1 you get to the meat of the information and you can go over it as many times as you like. you can't do that in public/private school. but you can at the house with home schooling. this is the KEY. being able to conquer the things you dont get quickly before you move on means that once you move on you actually know all the material not just some of it like most public/private school kids.

and for a lot of kids the social aspect of school is actually more of a bad thing than a good thing.
you hang around with other people who dont want to study or do well in school. and you end up slacking off. no matter what your parents say. bad influences outside the home can get you caught up. and the other social stuff like feeling the need to get chicks if you're a dude, or have a boyfriend if you're a girl. or be at tough guy, not get punked by the school bully. being bullied in general doesnt happen for home schoolers. being an awkward kid at home doesnt have the negative affects as being one at a legit school.. all these things will affect kids negatively. what if you're a guy not into sports? thats looked down on in regular school. but no one cares at home.

last but not least for black kids specifically you dont have to deal racist teachers hating on you. ESPECIALLY HATING ON LITTLE BLACK BOYS. telling them they aint about ish... telling them they aint going to be ish... always sending them to the office for non extreme situations. keeping them from learning. recommending to put these kids into special -ed. even though they dont have a learning disability, etc, etc, etc.

The thing about home schooling is that you are essentially teaching to the test, the very thing parents are complaining about most with public schools.

I know a few chicks who are homeschooling their kids (and mind you they are not in the right position to do so because 2 didnt graduate high school and the 3rd has no job and is just bored at home) and all they do is let the kids run through the material on the computer, have them do the tests over and over, and call it a day.

Also you overstating the whole sports tough guy thing. Most of the guys in high schools wont play sports so you telling me the majority of men in high schools are looked down upon? In public school you just gotta find your lane. Its a lane for nerds, jocks, introverts, extroverts, etc... Its a great way to find out that there are plenty of other people out there just like you.

 

[Shogun]

The key to all of this is having parents who give a shyt about their kids education. If you have that then they will do well in public, private, or home schooling. You take a child whose parents see school as a personal day care and have those parents home school that child and I guarantee you those SAT scores wont be so high.

This.
So much this.

 

[Won Won]

That's good and all but I often found home schooled kids strange, withdrawn with no social skills.

Exactly. There's more to school than just the work