To the Dumb ass who stated that the home school kids are being set up to fail.
If you're going to refer to me as "Dumb ass" on a thread about home schooling, you should bring your grammatical "A" game. And my username isn't too far from my post.
Bullshit to ya mate tell this to my neice whom is attending oxford on a free ride. show me a public educated student whom can say the same.
While I cannot "show you" one, I'm willing to bet more than one public school educated child has made it to Oxford and has gotten a scholarship, although I'm not sure why getting a free ride scholarship makes someone any more worthy to attend Oxford.
Since I doubt you'd be willing to do the research to prove your claim, I decided to do it for you. Err, for myself. Either way, your niece isn't the special little snowflake you think she is.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk
Despite encouraging results, some misconceptions remain entrenched. There were two incorrect perceptions still lingering in 2004 which we are keen to address,' said Helen Carasso. One is that teachers underestimate what proportion of state students go to Oxford and Cambridge, wrongly believing that independent school students are in a majority. The average estimate was that 44 per cent of students at Oxford and Cambridge came from state schools and colleges. In reality, for 2004 entry, 57 per cent of UK students admitted to Cambridge and 52.7 per cent of UK students admitted to Oxford came from state schools and colleges.
Teachers and students also wrongly believe that Oxford and Cambridge are more expensive than other universities. Perhaps by 2004 we hadn't done enough to publicise the generous financial support, competitively-priced food and accommodation, and excellent library and computing facilities. Since the survey was carried out, however, both universities have announced their bursary plans from 2006 onwards, with widespread publicity, including a national advertising campaign from Oxford. We are offering some of the most generous bursary schemes in the country up to 13,000 over four years from Oxford, and up to 12,000 over four years from Cambridge with even more for some mature students so we hope awareness of financial support has already been raised.'
why do the nationial stats. show home school children are doing better in collage entrance exams.
The only people/entities that have any data to back up this claim are the HSDLA, and they have even conceded that the statistics are misrepresentative because a disproportionaly small number homschoolers actually take college entrance exams (which tells you something else...).
If you can produce a statistic that comes from someone other than a homeschooling lobbying group, I'll believe you.
I could go on but you people whom are against home schooling need a reality check.
Posted by GenSherman
Why stop now? You're doing so well at proving your point.
