Education

I would think that the better audience to poll on the effectiveness of home schooling would NOT be the very biased teachers/parents/students/whatever they call themselves, but an outside authority who measures the job outputs of each category of student, those in home schooling vs. those in the public school system.

I say that several categories could be measured, somewhat, as to written skills, speaking skills, math skills, and perhaps other categories that businesses are looking for. Of course measuring of trade school skills is somewhat different, since a different teaching discipline is used, e.g., specific skills for a job category instead of an overall list of categories (reading, writing, math, etc.).

Thing is, that damage could be done to those students could are only subject to those skills preferred by home schoolers, trapped in age old disciplines that have no relevance in today's world.