some statistics...

I didn't post these statistics to say how amazing home schooling is, I just wanted to smash those rumors that say home schooled kids aren't smart and that their parents must not know what they are doing. It just shows that the majority of home schooling parents are extremely educated and their children turn out very intelligent also.

"The background questionnaires returned for this study reveal that, on average, home school parents have more formal education than parents in the general population, with 88% having continued their education beyond high school compared to 50% for the nation as a whole (Figure 7). Furthermore, almost one in four home school students (24%) has at least one parent who is a certified teacher."



"Home school students do exceptionally well when compared with the nationwide average. In every subject and at every grade level of the ITBS and TAP batteries, home school students scored significantly higher than their public and private school counterparts (Figure 1)."