The Homeschool Solution, Part Two: Academic Achievement
Another big concern is the level of education they'll receive. Will they be able to compete with their public schooled peers?
I say, yes, they can.
I can only speak for the Robinson curriculum, of course, since that's the system I used personally, but the system itself teaches independence and critical thinking.
By making students teach themselves, they learn how to seek out answers in books when no teacher is available. They learn to find the answers themselves, and that increases their independence as well as their logical thinking skills.
I can also draw a comparison between homeschool and public school students. When I went to test for my GED, I was seventeen years old. In fact, I had just turned seventeen a few months earlier. The GED test is scored out of eight hundred possible points. An average score of five hundred and ten is needed to pass the battery. An average score of more than six hundred and fifty earns the student a sticker on their certificate that marks them in the honors range.
When I took my tests, I scored in the honors range for every single test. In fact, my highest score, for reading comprehension, was only fifty points from perfect. When I graduated I was in the top ten percent of the class.
Because of the critical thinking skills I learned from the homeschooling program, I'm now able to find what I want to learn from books, weigh options, put together complicated schedules, and discipline myself to work at home. Without the discipline I learned to teach myself, I would not be able to run this blog, to write my stories, to finish my artwork. I would not have a good work ethic.
With the swelling number of homeschooled students, colleges are having to accept the GED as valid proof of education. And in America, what we become is based on the work and effort we put into it. Homeschool students have the work ethic, the discipline, to outperform public school students if they so desire.
For some homeschool versus public school statistics, you can check out this cool infographic.
I say, yes, they can.
I can only speak for the Robinson curriculum, of course, since that's the system I used personally, but the system itself teaches independence and critical thinking.
By making students teach themselves, they learn how to seek out answers in books when no teacher is available. They learn to find the answers themselves, and that increases their independence as well as their logical thinking skills.
I can also draw a comparison between homeschool and public school students. When I went to test for my GED, I was seventeen years old. In fact, I had just turned seventeen a few months earlier. The GED test is scored out of eight hundred possible points. An average score of five hundred and ten is needed to pass the battery. An average score of more than six hundred and fifty earns the student a sticker on their certificate that marks them in the honors range.
When I took my tests, I scored in the honors range for every single test. In fact, my highest score, for reading comprehension, was only fifty points from perfect. When I graduated I was in the top ten percent of the class.
Because of the critical thinking skills I learned from the homeschooling program, I'm now able to find what I want to learn from books, weigh options, put together complicated schedules, and discipline myself to work at home. Without the discipline I learned to teach myself, I would not be able to run this blog, to write my stories, to finish my artwork. I would not have a good work ethic.
With the swelling number of homeschooled students, colleges are having to accept the GED as valid proof of education. And in America, what we become is based on the work and effort we put into it. Homeschool students have the work ethic, the discipline, to outperform public school students if they so desire.
For some homeschool versus public school statistics, you can check out this cool infographic.
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