Hi all, new here. I was home schooled from K to 4th and I thought that I ought to give my testimony that home schooled children are really a cut above the rest.
For the first 5 years of my schooling my mother was my only source of education on our rural homestead. Math, English, Science, History and Spelling fit neatly into the hours between 08:00 and 12:00. I didn't really realize that I was any different from anyone else until circumstances required me to enter the local public school. When my entrance exam was graded my mother was told that her 4th grader was among the top 10% of students that ever came through that school's doors. They even offered to put me directly into 6th grade math. Since then I have easily excelled in all my classes (excepting P.E.: it seems that splitting wood and playing football do not use the same muscles, and I was accustomed to one and not the other). I have been a valedictorian twice, once at eighth grade graduation and again at 12th grade graduation, and I am going to a high quality college nearly entirely on scholarships.
I am truly grateful that my mother took the time to educate me. Homeschooling didn't teach me everything I needed to know, but more importantly it taught me how to learn. It taught me how to be observant, how to analyze, and how to recognize the baloney that increasingly shows up in today's public education system.