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Originally Posted by Normy
Do you really think you are capable of giving your daughters the same education as people who have an education degree, and spend their days teaching children?
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This depends on the kid and the district in a big way.
I did home school for 8th-12th grades, self taught from the books with teacher review, and had concurrent enrollment in the community college at 14 after passing 9th grade in two months (the requirement for admission was to have 9th completed)
However good the teachers at the school were, they had to deal with the lowest common denominator kids, the set curriculum, etc. I was bored out of my mind, unmotivated and got middling grades because I would skip all homework and ace the tests.
Learned way more once I started work than I did in either school or the community college and ran with that.
I probably would have been a little better off socially having gone to HS, but I felt it was a big waste of time and not going was a lot of my own decision. I had a good group of friends, just had a hard time dealing with dumbasses once I got out in the real world, which HS may or may not have helped me with.
So I don't think there is any real fixed answer.
I do think that there are a lot of kids that are home schooled for the wrong reasons and end up being weirdos or missing big chunks of basic knowledge from early school (especially math).
I say try it, you can always re-enroll, and the fact that you even asked others opinions shows that you'll remain interested, which is as important as anything else.
FWIW, I'm 31, and started home school just before it was really catching on and as accepted and had a lot of doubtful family (aunts, uncles, grandparents) which was a good motivator to prove them all wrong.