If all you look at is the GPA and a transcript from any highschool you will
probably hire the wrong person. Home/yacht schooled kids still have to take
proctored standardized tests like the ITBS and SAT and most score
considerably higher than traditional school students. They also tend to
present themselves with a good deal more maturity.

That does not necessarily hold true for the farm raised religious
conservative but a kid who spent his highschool years cruising the world
with a recognized home schooling program is usually head and shoulders above
the average public highschool graduate.

This is only a single example but my brother in law took his kids cruising
from the 8th to 10th grades and used the University of Nebraska service.
When they came ashore and enrolled in a top notch private school in
Savannah the kids were placed a grade level higher and still graduated at
the top of their classes. And this was before internet access was available
almost everywhere.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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"Vito" wrote in message
...

That has nothing to do with my, or Larry's point. Say I'm looking at five
resumes for a trainee position. Four graduated from a Cleveland HS with
above average GPAs. One spent the last 15 years on a boat cruising the
islands with his parents who 'home schooled' him, but he has nothing to
prove that. I don't know if his parents were conscientious or religious
kooks. Now,am I going to call any of them in to take hours of tests to
prove
they learned enough to do the job at hand, or am I going to believe the
GPAs
and transcripts and round file the fifth kid? It'd be different if the
home
schooled kid had the equivalent of the others' credentials but if he
doesn't
he's SOL.

Fair? The world isn't fair.

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:22:44 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

If all you look at is the GPA and a transcript from any highschool you will
probably hire the wrong person. Home/yacht schooled kids still have to take
proctored standardized tests like the ITBS and SAT and most score
considerably higher than traditional school students. They also tend to
present themselves with a good deal more maturity.

That does not necessarily hold true for the farm raised religious
conservative but a kid who spent his highschool years cruising the world
with a recognized home schooling program is usually head and shoulders above
the average public highschool graduate.

This is only a single example but my brother in law took his kids cruising
from the 8th to 10th grades and used the University of Nebraska service.
When they came ashore and enrolled in a top notch private school in
Savannah the kids were placed a grade level higher and still graduated at
the top of their classes. And this was before internet access was available
almost everywhere.


It's a hard lesson for folks to swallow: that big high schools,
despite the wider choice of options - are an adverse educational
influence.
Mid-size schools can also suffer from a dearth of choice.

But tutor education which is student centered - which was the choice
of the very rich for hundreds of years - can be unequaled - given a
sutable quality of tutor.
Home-schooling can easily aspire to this level of tutelage, though if
the educational sub-strate is too far from the mainstream, perhaps
inerrant bible-centered, or extreme Paganism, then the advantage is
turned to deficit.

I have spoken to a few home-schooled children, fearing for their
social skills, and have always been pleasantly surprized by their
composure, their friendliness and their know-how.

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote
...... Home/yacht schooled kids still have to take
proctored standardized tests like the ITBS and SAT and most score
considerably higher than traditional school students.

That does not necessarily hold true for the farm raised religious
conservative but a kid who spent his highschool years cruising the world
with a recognized home schooling program is usually head and shoulders
above
the average public highschool graduate.

This proves it possible to get credentials for home schooled kids. The
important thing is that their parents know this from the git go and make
sure the kids get them. But I wonder how many do.