So how do homeschooled students do when they go to college?

Yes that was right unless you work for yourself your an employee so I find that wording poor. Many people used to work in assembly lines and made things and found pride in that work, many still do.

Employees are important.

 

Because people continue to insist on talking about "homeschooling" in generalities, as if it was one single phenomenon about which 'studies' can be performed and conclusions drawn.

My argument is that the word 'homeschooling' doesn't communicate very much unless we amplify it by specifying 'homeschooling by whom exactly? Homeschooling how?'

When addressed generically, without any further specification, the word 'homeschooling' seems to refer broadly to any instance of homeschooling, whatever the circumstances and however performed.

Under those conditions, any relative advantage that homeschooled children currently display would likely evaporate and turn into comparative disadvantage.

Put simply: Homeschooling shouldn't be treated simplistically and oversold.

 

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<sigh> Ok. I'll reword it. For 8 or so hours a day you are an employee (or an owner or a street performer or a doctor or a cook.....), the other 16 you're not.
My point, is that I (me) believe that the purpose of life is not lived exclusively inside those 8 hours, thus education IN MY HOMESCHOOL shouldn't only be about how to yield quality in those 8 hours. We don't only learn the "3 R's" for our job- we learn them to be part of society. We don't study history for our "job" therefor JOB PLACEMENT CAN'T BE THE MEASURE OF OUTCOME. It is a PART of the whole, it is not the sum. Simply, my point is that there is more to life and I EXPECT MORE for MY children. Somehow you have turned my generic agreement with you (which was a sidebar to the actual conversation) and comments about my homeschool, into a debate about the value of blue collar workers.

 

I'm sorry Jennifer but you couldn't possibly be trying to say that education is not solely for the purpose of employment.
What kind of radical, communist terrorist chef might you be?

 

YES!
Radical? Check.
Communist? No way.
Terrorist? Ehhhhh, too many variables to answer.
Chef? I'm trying not to be.

 

Great post! If you don't mind I will re-post on another forum. Let me know.

 

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that makes me just a little afraid.

 

Why? I'm a member of a Home School forum.