Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education

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3. Home Schooling has its good and bad points

I can understand how some parents don't want to send their children to bad schools. I think at the elementary school level parents can do a better job then some schools, if the parents are disciplined and ensure the homework gets done (yes, homeschoolers get homework too). But I wonder about parents home schooling at the high school level.

When I was in military recruiting there were a lot of teenagers who dropped out of high school and claimed to be home schooled their last 2 to 3 years. Yet they did very poorly on the ASVAB. These kids were never home schooled. They were high school dropouts.

The government has a vested interested in ensuring everyone has an education. An illiterate mass of people is a drain on society and will become burdens instead of productive members. There needs to be checks on home schooling, to ensure children aren't neglected or that it is not used to disguise dropouts.