Is the end result of home schooling merely that children will grow to be only as smart as their parents, or at least whoever is introducing the home schooling curriculum?
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Not necessarily. Not that I am a defender of home-schooling whatsoever, but that line of thought discounts the notion that the kid will start reading things on his own. It isn't like they don't them to the public library or block off internet access. That also seems to indicate that the student will never be smarter than their teachers in public school, which you and I personally invalidate unless all of your teachers had advanced degrees.
I thought about that latter point, but consider that, unless your school(s) was/were dramatically different than the ones I attended, you had numerous different teachers for different subjects across each grade level.
I admit that I might be making a grand assumption about home schooling, that a home schooling program is limited to one instructor for each subject, for a long period of time. This assumption lended greatly to my thought of the day.
The uniformity of instructional methods and the limited nature of the curriculum would probably be a significant factor, but hopefully the parents wouldn't limit any additional learning. I'm sure the social skills that come out of interacting with the parent all day ahve got to be subpar at best. Supposedly the all-stars of the spelling bees in recent years have been home-schooled, which probably means the parents only drill them on spelling for 80% of the day and do science, math, and so on the other 20% of each day.
According to some theories on intelligence testing, vocabulary is the strongest indicator of overall intelligence. However, I would certainly assume that will shift within the next five years.
But you know, maybe not, when you consider that vocabulary is fast becoming a casualty these days.
I feel a Miller's Analogy item developing ...
I don't know that the rote memorization of spellings is the same as having a large working vocabulary.
All the same, home schooling is borderline child abuse and the majority of adults who decide to home school their children are anti-social nutbags of some fundamentalist stripe. I know that's a generalization, but I don't care. Send your damn kids to school so they can suffer through the same bullshit as the rest of us.
I can only think of one home-school success story off the top of my head...
...and that, by God, is Tim Tebow.
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