tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post8526516307900015746..comments2023-05-07T02:50:54.812-06:00Comments on Marcy's Musings: Are Homeschoolers Well Prepared for College?Marcy Muserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17787308098682419608noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post-37832657347104443052009-10-14T12:28:36.585-06:002009-10-14T12:28:36.585-06:00Great info, thanks for sharing. The majority of h...Great info, thanks for sharing. The majority of homeschoolers are very well prepared for college, although the steps to get there can be rather confusing at times. Keep up the great work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post-77769418099685031132008-05-01T10:41:00.000-06:002008-05-01T10:41:00.000-06:00Wow, Shawna, thanks so much for the confirmation! ...Wow, Shawna, thanks so much for the confirmation! I was homeschooled myself all of my high school years, through the University of Nebraska correspondence school, and I slipped into college quite easily. My husband, on the other hand, was public schooled all the way through - and he was thrilled to end up with a C on his first exam at the same college. He says he had never really studied in his life; college was a rude awakening for him. He went on to do very well, and thanks to being married to me halfway through :) ended up graduating cum laude. But he was definitely a lot less prepared than I was.Marcy Muserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17787308098682419608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31025548.post-15693599284949799052008-05-01T10:17:00.000-06:002008-05-01T10:17:00.000-06:00I cannot comment on how well prepared homeschooler...I cannot comment on how well prepared homeschoolers are for college mainly because my lack of experience with them and because so much of what is reported to the public are the great success stories, which leaves a lopsided picture.<BR/><BR/>But I can attest to the poor quality of preparation of publicly schooled students, having taught them, observed them and having been one of the!<BR/><BR/>I was a decent student myself and in fact selected to skip over some high school classes to begin college early--I did not do so due to my parents divorcing at the time and my sister and I taking a back seat in life... regardless, the first thing "I" noticed in university was how unprepared I was for it! Even community college hadn't prepared me for what was required and in fact I look 18 months of between community college and university so as to mature and arrange my life so that I could dedicate myself to university.<BR/><BR/>As I home educate my 2nd grader I often find myself reviewing concepts with him and saying, "Now pay attention, because even my high school students couldn't keep this one straight/ spell this/ compute this/etc." It motivates him and saddens me that my high school students hadn't even internalize nor retained basic 2nd grade material.<BR/><BR/>My own children, whom are in public high school and attended public schools their who academic lives, fall short in many areas. Where their interests lie they do VERY well; in the basics, they often falter. In fact 3 of my adult children have not had success in community college and have fumbled terribly in the basics of living (finances, economics, self-sufficiency, finding out what they need to help them in various aspects of living: where and how to file taxes, where and how to obtain car insurance, where to go vote and how to find out where to go vote, trying to decide which political party they want to register for--what is a Democrat, what is a Republican, etc.) Yes, dad and I emphasized these things at home and as parents; we both were self-sufficient, independent, intelligent, avid readers and able to find what we needed in life to make it on our own as young people--each out of the house before 20... but considering that so much of our children's lives are spent on a school campus, I now see how much that influence overrides their learning until they are older and more mature and the teachings and examples of home begin to resurface and set in.<BR/><BR/>Again, I may not know much about how prepared home educated children are for the academic life of college, but I do know that many of those publicly schooled students simply are not!Shawnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15226629390376056787noreply@blogger.com