can homeschoolers run for the high school ?

Sez I'm in WA supplying stereotypical evidence.

What are you smoking, bro? Did I say anything about 6000 year old earth? I was simply giving my experience as a reseponse to another educator claiming that no one should homeschool. Of course people should homeschool. My kids are greatly benefiting from it. They get to sleep in until 8:00 while other kids are up at 5:30. They get their academics done without all the wasted time. They have the ability and time to pursue other interests. They are well rounded. They have lots of friends. I'm sorry you are so narrow minded to think that all homeschoolers live in religious zelots homes. They don't.

lkhk wrote:

I'm in WA wrote:

You say you are a school teacher. You say you home school your daughter. You say your daughter is intelligent and on the fast track to success. Anyone whom has walked onto a college campus should know the difference between anecdotal evidence and empirical evidence. Should troglodytes whom believe the earth is 6000 years old be allowed to home school their kids? What is best for you, in your opinion is awful for society.

Sez I'm in WA supplying stereotypical evidence.

From you, no empirical evidence home schooling is better than public school education for kids in US.

Sack Rafice wrote:

What are you smoking, bro? Did I say anything about 6000 year old earth? I was simply giving my experience as a reseponse to another educator claiming that no one should homeschool. Of course people should homeschool. My kids are greatly benefiting from it. They get to sleep in until 8:00 while other kids are up at 5:30. They get their academics done without all the wasted time. They have the ability and time to pursue other interests. They are well rounded. They have lots of friends. I'm sorry you are so narrow minded to think that all homeschoolers live in religious zelots homes. They don't.

From you Mr. school teacher. No empirical evidence.

Well, if you insist on being a dick, I guess I'll play along.

Did a quick search and found this study. ACT scores, college credit earned in HS, first year college gpa, college graduation attainment: all higher among homeschool kids than traditional public school kids. In fact, public school kids were last in every category.

I'm not saying homeschoing is for everyone, but clearly there are benefits to it.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ893891.pdf&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwj7hNzS9cfbAhUMxoMKHdclB10QFggSMAE&usg=AOvVaw0UTWrTn5YmkiMwKOYxfzWn

I'm in WA wrote:

The ding bat trophy wife two houses down the street whom didn't attend college is homeschooling her five kids. Time will tell. Her daughter runs for the local high school.

Hey, at least she probably doesn't use "whom" as a subject pronoun. It's not a fancy version of "who", doofus.

Homeschoolers average an advantage of one standard deviation on standardized tests over public schoolers. However, this is less because public school teachers are idiots and more because 1:1 teaching is vastly more effective than 20:1 teaching.

In defense of public school teachers, they face enormous challenges. Try teaching a class with the current mix of students in American society (homeless, or living in poverty, immigrant, undocumented, or with substance-addicted or incarcerated parents). The main discipline/classroom management instruction these teachers are given is "building relationships and setting expectations". They do a good job with the time and resources available, but it's hard to cover the same amount of material, do projects, or explore topics in depth in a large class with diverse needs and little funding.

My kid had homeschooled kids on his XC team that were taking community college classes their junior and senior years but never attended the local high school. It wasn't a problem at all.

Yes, as in PA but not In some states like DE and NJ. I was homeschooled since 1st grade and I could only compete for my public high school in the district I live in. Talk to the AD and the head coaches about going through the processes to make sure that you can.

In MA: You pays taxes, you can plays sports, so *technically* yes

BUT... (there's always a but): depends on the sport.

In MY sports-obsessed town, where parents have been known to SUE to get lil Suzy more game time, a homeschooler might be on the TEAM, but might never be on the FIELD. Homeschool parents typically don't have the years of networking (whining, strong-arming, threatening, etc.) to make sure their kids will get to play AND (and trust me on this) the OTHER parents are gonna work like H-E-double-hockey sticks to keep your kid in the background (or make the kid feel bad etc.).

Track? X-country? No prob. 'cuz, duh, who cares about THOSE.

Soccer? No. Way.

I'll give you a better but more pernicious example:

Your kid wants to be in that special theater group, jazz ensemble, a capella? Sorry, only ppl who took Mr. So-and-So's 8th grade prelim class are eligible to audition. So, unless you thought WAY ahead (because, yes, your kid can take specific classes at the local school, e.g., music lessons, band, etc.--at least in MA), your budding American Idol may well be SOL.

Sports is the one regret I have about homeschooling; however, my sporty sprog chose to go to a private school (for sports); the Number 1 son was never into sports though, always did his own thing. His "homeschooling" the last coupla years consisted mainly of courses at local colleges (oh, and he's off to a pretty elite U. next fall...).

It depends on the state, but for the most part, coaches don't like to take on home schooled kids. They are usually anti-social and dangerous to the chemistry of the team.

And they're weird.

I was typing and incorrectly used whom versus who. It took you about six hours after you read your eighth grade grammar book to catch my error. You stepped into my wheelhouse with your mention of statistics and standard deviation. Prove it! Give us data which demonstrates your theory that home schoolers and at least one standard deviation superior to those at public schools. Quit changing your name coward when you respond to me! You have used several names on this thread.

Lets Tell It Like It Is wrote:

Parents are homeschooling because they're fed up with the VIOLENCE!

Kids can't even attend public school anymore without the risk of getting SLAUGHTERED like cattle!

Can the government guarantee every child's safety? Well...can they? ?

And all these school resourse officers in the schools these days and they still can't prevent innocent children from being SLAUGHTERED like cattle!!!

http://www.wate.com/news/local-news/public-schools-vs-homeschooling-a-safety-decision/1149656639http://clairemonttimes.com/2018/04/06/homeschooling-a-growing-trend-in-american-education/

There are about 50 million students in the US. This year there have been 20 fatal school shootings.

There are about 3500 drownings in the US each year.

88,000 die from alcohol.

Last year 39 people died from dog bites.

Calm down.

Homeschooled kids can compete on all high school sports teams in AZ. I was homeschooled through high school and ran XC (also played tennis).

Also, I and almost every other homeschooled student I knew got academic scholarships. So from personal experience I can tell you that you are lucky to be homeschooled - you'll likely get a solid, broad education that isn't heavily secularized and PC.

ProudSnowflake wrote: I’m sorry but homeschooling is ridiculous and parents who remove their kids from school should be shamed. And it is an issue when kids grow up without being taught properly by a trained educator like myself or others.

14 presidents of the united states have been homeschooled. and since the donald is number 45, that means around 1 in 3 leaders of the free world have been homeschooled.

problem?

You've failed to present any data substantiating your mere assertions. And, though it is a nit, I'll pick it: your final sentence lacks end punctuation. Is yours a false flag post to make teachers such as yourself look bad and, therefore, to justify homeschooling?

No. The point of homeschooling is social isolation, so children grow up with no ability to interact with others nor awareness of the rich texture of humanity.

My homeschooled children don't miss out on "the rich texture of humanity." Our gardener is from Central America, our maid is black, our Drs are Indian and Jewish and we frequently eat out at Chinese, Mexican and Italian restaurants.

Lol. My gardner is Honduran is up there with I have black friends as an entitled, blundered remark ...

You adduced zero evidence for your tendentious claims.

About seven or eight years ago, I was in the Greenwich YMCA (which has an Olympic-sized pool) in Greenwich, CT, a town of about 65,000 people which then was the hometown of about seven to nine billionaires. Greenwich is about 32 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The public schools are good in Greenwich, and about 25% of the kids in town, as I recall, attend private schools. There was a homeschooling group of about twenty students and a few teachers that rented a room in the YMCA. I was working on my own, quietly, in the next room, and could hear what was going on. I was very impressed with the subject matter and that so many of these "homeschoolers" were NOT leading entirely isolated existences as your post would have us believe. And man of them participate on sports teams or in other groups.