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Re: Too Religious to Keep Her Daughter: Are you ne
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Originally Posted by Rhoni
Pianoman,
I like that idea of a 'benchmark' administered to parents wishing to homeschool. The success of homeschooling is as much about the parents as the children. More intelligent children are capable of working and learning primarily on their own. Some need much more hands on teaching and learning through following examples.
Sorry if I broad-brushed the issue. I know there are some very successful homeschooled young people.
Blessings, Rhonda
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The only benchmark there needs to be is yearly standardized testing. If the children pass the same tests that publicly schooled children do (and they usually do, with flying colors and much higher scores), then it shouldn't matter how they arrived at those scores, or who helped them get there.
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abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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