Homeschooled and did great in college. --------> - Jandy from iPhone

Sounds like college is more the problem. Endless lectures blah blah blah - Todd Hoff

My friend says this sounds like my students...now this is understanding. :) - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Well, the problem is, the real world isn't like homeschooling either. :) - Wirehead from Android

No, it isn't. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Parents were hardly involved, with my homeschooling, weekly provisioning of assignments, and occasional assistance if I needed it. If anything it was more like college than public highschool. Also, don't know many homeschooled kids, who got a ton of attention, most were, the same way as me, though they may have had a daily provision of assignments in the morning. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

What does he teach? And how does he know they were home-schooled? - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Biology and you got to be kidding me. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

What Jimminy said for me, too. My parents were more hands-on in the lower grades, but by high school it was pretty much "here's the book, here's the tests, do it yourself." I did, and I think I got more "hand-holding" in college than I did being homeschooled. - Jandy

Note, I did have issues with lab based sciences, it's something that can be lacking in the home environment, thought it was more an issue with TA's that couldn't speak fluent English. I also fell into the bunch that didn't like the professor power-trip thing. I got pissed off over the whole thing, when I got scolded for not taking a "remedial" course, that I actually tried signing up for instead, but was over qualified for. Which was a side-effect of reintegration with the public school system. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I have to agree this should go under "one problem with college." And the world is corporate-fascist. I want an army of home-schooled to change that. - Mark Horne

I was homeschooled until college and did great, and got two grad degrees. And the colleges I went to recruited homeschooled kids because we routinely did great. Homeschooling is a lot like college (as people have said) so my siblings who decided to go to public high school had a harder transition than I did. And transition difficulties weren't about the attention, they were about the rigid scheduling of the day. I'm guessing you friend only knows of the problem homeschooled kids, and I'm guessing there's a percentage of kids who are problems regardless of school background. Some kids need attention (kinda like some adults need attention). Most homeschoolers I knew were very independent learners because we'd been in charge of our own learning for a really long time. - lris

From my experience teaching composition at the university (which is always a low-enrollment course), I didn't have those sorts of problems with home-schooled students. Some were great, some average, some less than average. The same is true of students from public schools and private schools. I've had just one homeschooled student who expected me to give him tons of attention. I've had more of that type from private and public schools (probably b/c there are more of them). It's a matter of personality as much as anything else. - Katy S

And by the way, not all of us who teach at universities are egomaniacs. I'd say that the majority are not. I have, however, come across students who show absolutely no respect for people with expertise in a subject. It works both ways. And, fwiw, studies show that female professors are treated more disrespectfully than male professors, so sometimes they have to be more aggressive about demanding respect than their male counterparts. It sucks, but that's the way it is. - Katy S

Why don't home-schooling parents also home-university their kids? - Andrew C (✓) from Android

Andrew, because most employers don't consider candidates without a degree from an accredited institution. - The original Kevin

Also, there are a lot of things that you need for college, depending on your program, that are prohibitively expensive without institutional affiliation. I was a video/audio production major in undergrad, and there's no way my family could've afforded all the video cameras, high-powered editing suites, sound boards, microphones, etc. that we had at school. Even in the humanities, it's hard/impossible to get access to the journals and critical works you need if you aren't affiliated with a university. - Jandy

I hope my kids get a chance to take care of you somehow in the future, Alex. - Josh Haley from iPhone

Waiting for @AlexScrivener to chime in here. In my experience (I wasn't homeschooled, but my sibs are), my sister has done alright with college thus far. I think it really depends on how the schooling is done, the focus being on how much attention the kid gets--if the parents make a point for the child to do most, if not all of the work and learning on his own, then the results will likely be conducive to college studies. - ryan

In most cases, if a high-school-aged home-schooler is still getting attention from his parents, they are doing it wrong. By that point you have to be self-motivated enough to do your own work. Why don't home-schooling parents also home-university their kids? Because they can pick a college that fits the student, rather than being assigned to a one-size-fits-none teenager warehouse. - Alex Scrivener

there are WAY more opportunities to have sex with strangers and partake of assorted drugs at college. well, for most people. - Morgan

Jandy, me too! At my school, home schoolers were not only common, they did very well and were (almost) as sociable as everyone else. Though I did notice that they very seldom went Greek, and the Greek system at Kettering is HUGE (almost 50% of students). - Kevin L

Of course, I also went to an unusually small school of about 3,000 students, so yes, I did build a relationship with the faculty. - Kevin L