Homeschool to college interview with four students This interview is possibly the best case I've seen for homeschooling. Four articulate, grounded, socialized college students talk about their diverse homeschooling and college experiences, It's so clear here how homeschooling contributes to motivation, research skills, life skills, autonomy (and possibly even far better socialization than traditional school). |
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All three of my kids (now adults) got schooled at home, then went on to college. More unschooling than homeschooling -- we didn't follow a formal curriculum. Of the group of homeschooling families we socialized with in Portland most of the kids went on to college. Back then we would get college recruiters, including from Ivy League schools, showing up at homeschooling events. I suspect that has a lot to do with the relatively affluent middle class who can afford to homeschool, but it helps that homeschooled kids actually perform well at college.
You can find some videos and accounts of unschoolers with feral kids who can't read. That happens too but not the norm in my experience.
If you haven't already found them, get John Holt's books, especially How Children Learn and How Children Fail. Also Grace Llewellyn and John Taylor Gatto. I liked the book Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich.