<p>Nope becoming harder for me. prob. cause i'm so procrastinating.... sick with senioritis.</p>
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<p>If you are going the homeschool route, then buck up and live with the realities. I am a real believer in homeschooling and homeschool based schools. But you can't tout your form of educaiton and then feel sorry for you that the rules you play by aren't fair! There are plenty of homeschoolers who put together hs transcripts that my high school attending kid would kill to have. Transcripts that get them into top colleges and universities. I would suggest that you take the plank off your shoulder and focus on what you have going FOR you instead of against you. And yes, the homeschoolers I know have amazing lives and yes, they use all of their awards and accomplishments on their transcripts.</p>
<p>And "Moan away, housewives?" This is what your superior education has taught you? Stereotype, assume, and mock the people you want to engage in debate with? Hmm. I wonder if you will put that on your transcript.</p>
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<p>And BTW, not a housewife.</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm Heron. Posted under my daughter's screenname.</p>
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Now you're just making baseless assumptions to prove a point. I'm not debating what kind of statistic model you would design to cherry-pick data, the facts remain. Homeschoolers, just like public schoolers, share a broad range of life styles and social status. Not all homeschoolers are rich, and not all public schoolers are poor.
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<p>True. However, look at it in a broad scale. Homeschoolers are more likely to have well educated parents(who, GENERALLY, make more money) and more likely to come from situations where 1 parent is staying home(who, GENERALLY, make more money). </p>
<p>Parents of special needs kids, disabilities, and so on are also more likely than average to get homeschooled. But those are cancelled out by the 'genius kids' who are homeschooled on the opposite end of that spectrum.</p>
<p>So, for the bulk of the curve, it is 'normal' kids. And Although I don't have statistics to back it up: Are going to trend towards higher than average income. A reminder - Median Household income is $48,000 per year in the US.</p>
<p>I'd love to know where you get these "facts" you keep citing. </p>
<p>You keep insisting that homeschoolers are one or two years ahead of kids in public school. How do you know? Based on the population of homeschoolers that I know, this is patently false.</p>
<p>You keep insisting that public high schools are overcrowded and rife with violence and that the students are zombies. You clearly have very limited exposure to public high schools, and a willingness to generalize based on a very small sample--as well as a desire to believe every negative thing you've ever heard about public schools.</p>
<p>Talk about cherry-picking data!</p>
<p>Parents that bother to pull their kids out of the easy option and homeschool their kids are likely to be smarter or at least care more about education on average than other parents.</p>
<p>Neither option is easy. The problem is that many homeschooling parents have the attitude that school is a cop out, a sell out, a dumbing down, whatever. And, for that matter, a lot of non-homeschooling parents think that homeschooling parents are doing a disservice to their children. Neither group is right. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods of education for both the parents and the kids. Neither way is easy. It's just silly to say that one group is smarter or cares more about education than the other.</p>