I'd like to know how homeschooled children fared as adults.?

Question

Please respond only if you have first-hand knowledge - and I'd like to hear it from the CHILDREN who were homeschooled, not from the adults who taught them.

Answer 1

I won't be able to have my kids do that for you for another 10-15 years ;) so I'll just give you a link to a study that was done on people who were homeschooled:

http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/default.asp

Answer 2

I am a homeschooler still in high school. But my older brother is 27. His score on the SAT landed him in the 99’Th percentile. He went to Covenant College for two years and majored in music before transferring to Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in FL where he graduated with a 4.0.

He did not have to pay tuition for his last two years. The school gave him a blank check.

After he graduated, he was offered jobs at Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Rockwell Collins. He accepted the one at Rockwell Collins even though it didn’t pay quite as much because he enjoyed using his creativity, and that job offered just that; a chance to be creative.

He now has his own house in FL, a wife, who was also homeschooled, actually. And a job that pays very well. He has lots of friends. He is very busy, but also very happy.

I have scored in the 97’th, 98’th and 99’th percentile on the Iowa tests. I hope to major in computer science, US history, philosophy, or some form of writing.

There are two types of homeschooling parents. There are proactive ones, and inactive ones.

If one teaches their child to be self disciplined, and hard working; if one takes the time to find the right courses and to work with their child diligently. I believe that that child will flourish because of it. I’m glad I’m being homeschooled! And my older brother would say the same thing!

If one has the right attitude. Homeschooling could be a great way to go!

Here's a link. It may be the same one that is in the first answer. In any case, it's good.

http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/default.asp

Answer 3

I was homeschooled and now I am 26 years old. My mother pulled me out of public school when I was in third grade. Unfortunatly, my mother did what a great number of people do when they start homeschool. She started homeschooling with good intentions and she started out strong, but slowly it became a game of "we can do our school work tomorrow". As I found myself turning the age of 18 I realized tomorrow never came. Now I am a dishwasher and I don't have the skills to do much more. So if you are thinking about homeschooling your child, make sure you have the will power and the committment to follow through, because if you don't, it's your child's life you will destroy. If you are wanting to be homeschooled, make sure you think twice before you actually have your parents pull you out of school.

Answer 4

From the perspective of a relative who saw it, they are faring very well. The oldest is about to graduate from an accerated college prep school. He has a 4.0 average, he relates to his friends and adults very well and he is still a typical teenager going through the growing pains of become an adult.