Great teacher, I am glad you spotted the obvious...... the report is on the best home schoolers who have done well enough to attain college. By definition they have achieved much. The data that is important, is a measure of ....all....home schooled students against traditional means. For their whole education and overall achievment. This is important as home schoolers tend to do well but finish witn far fewer qualifications due to the constraints of home teaching and nearly all don't go beyond a basic high school education without entering school.
Of course there will be SOME people at home getting the best tuition available, hired tutors, coaching, one on one teaching all day with specialists in all subjects.........then there is the child of a JW window cleaner. JW's aee the poorest and least educated large religious denomination in the world!
Some parents opt to teach their children, despite neither being qualified to teach or educated. It is laying the odds of educatiinal success for the child at almost impossible in these circumstances. I have seen this happen, I know JW kids that have had this and now are on state benefits.
One JW I grew up with did have home schooling, his mother was a retired teacher. He scored very highly......the problem being he only took and passed one exam! 12 years of schooling for a maths high school certificate. Compare that to the average student who can take up to 11.
I know and spend time with kids who have had the best education for sale in the UK, it does not compare to the home schooled JW's in my old congregations and yet they are all in the same job market. A child in school spends 9:00- 3:30 in classrooms (bar 1.5 hrs) learning up to 11 topics, it is impossible to replicate at home without a lot of money. Of course the one's that have the money have the great grades...& continue in college. But it isn't JW kids and we all know it.
SpaceMadness: speak for yourself.