My personal experience tells me that parents who are NOT jdubs that homeschool their kids do it for academic reasons...those children tend to excell. But jdub parents who pull their kids out of school because of association...those kids tend to be slow socially and intelectually. Does this make sense? So I guess it depends on the reasons behind homeschooling. If parents are motivated enough to take on the responsibility and smart enough, it can work very well...if they just want their kids to be super controlled and sheltered, its a huge disadvantage.
Again, I think that is a generalization and perhaps an unfair one. My parents put my sister and I into homeschooling to get us away from "bad association" and they pretty much left us to fend for our own learning.
I definitely excelled more than her academically, but even though my sister did not finish, she is a very intelligent person. She is well read and can carry on an very intelligent conversation about a variety of subects.
With that being said, here is the disclaimer: My sister is still a JW, so I guess she can't be *that* intelligent! Also, while she can carry on a conversation about a lot of different subjects, she tends to turn into a different person ... a stupid person ... when it comes to religion and the witnesses. Sometimes, I just want to shake her!
Karen (a.k.a. Wild_Thing)