Discussion on 'What percentage of homeschooled kids go to college?'

(1) On June 15, 2006 at 12:01 am 4.224.72.246 said:

Could the person, or someone else, who made the comparison between the number of traditional school HONOR students and homeschoolers who go on to college please also state the percentage of traditional school students who are in honors classes? I believe the percentage of traditional school honor students is actually very low, which certainly does not provide a viable comparison between the two groups. In effect you are making a comparison between the top whatever percent of traditional school students and an entire group of homeschooled students. When making a comparison of those two groups, 60 percent is actually a high percentage for the homeschooled.

I also believe you are stretching things when you make the statement about remedial classes. The largest number of students in high school are in regular classes that are neither honors or remedial, unless, of course, you are considering all classes except honors to be remedial.

If that is the case, you are making an extremely strong statement about the shape our public schools are in today. Personally, I believe the education provided by public schools has deteriorated greatly, but I certainly do not believe they have deteriorated to the point that there is nothing between honors and remedial.

Concerning your statement that those in higher education feel homeschoolers are less likely to adapt to the structure of higher education, which may account for the lower attendance level: I was a product of 12 years of public education and was in high school college prep classes before anyone designed the gifted program. I graduated high school with a 3.05 on a 4.0 scale GPA and was active in many clubs, band, and activities outside of school. However, I was in absolutely no way prepared for the structure of higher education and was academicaly dismissed because my college GPA was a 2.7 on a 4.0 scale. I went back to college and graduated with a 3.05 GPA (and that was starting out from the 2.7) in my 30s. I believe it would be safe to assume a percentage of public school students today are about as prepared for college structure as I was.

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