Comments on: Jaycee Dugard: Homeschool Mom?

By: Barbara Frank

Barbara Frank — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:37:35 +0000

Thanks for weighing in, everyone!

By: In Our Write Minds

In Our Write Minds — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:44:24 +0000

The educational consultant at our homeschool ISP used to say, “The worst year of homeschooling beats the best year of public education.” Your blog post certainly testifies to that!

Kim

By: Home School Dad

Home School Dad — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:58:24 +0000

Regarding Liz’s comment:

We do know that it was the opinion of the tests administered not the author of the story that Angel is functioning higher than her grade level.

I agree with Barbara’s conclusion that if home schooling can work in the worst of circumstances (and this has to be the worst or among the worst) that it has a great chance of working in the best of circumstances.

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By: Barbara Frank

Barbara Frank — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:37:28 +0000

Liz, since the reporter refers to recent tests, and also mentions that the girls are being tutored, I think it’s safe to assume the girls were given standardized placement tests so that the tutor would have an idea of where they stand in terms of approximate grade level.

While the level of a high school senior sure isn’t as high as it used to be, it still means that at the very least, the girl is literate and can do basic math. That’s a credit to her mother.

Stripped down to its essence, homeschooling is a parent teaching a child the three R’s, which is what happened here, and it worked.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:25:16 +0000

I don’t think that shows homeschooling works (and I don’t have anything against homeschooling). The news article (which itself is subject to bias), is very little data to go on. We don’t know what the reporter’s idea of “functioning” is…In short, no specifics.