Reply #365: You're the one who isn't reading.

[Pab Sungenis]

If the home"schooled" child enters college, then "home school" is no longer the top line of the education portion of the application. I have an independent entity (the college) certifying that student's matriculation.

I don't care what age that person entered college; one of my best friends in college (and still to this day) started University at 16. I don't care whether it's the majority system (public schools) or an alternative (private, parochial, charter, correspondence, etc.) as long as it's some system in place to verify that the student has been educated to certain standards.

The length of the educational experience also doesn't concern me. We have a new charter school here in town where a friend is sending his 2nd grader. Their school day runs from 8 AM until 5 PM with a series of breaks in-between. There is another proposed charter school that would hold classes from 8 AM until noon, but hold classes year round (with a one week break between sessions). Or, as far as I'm concerned, a kid who's 13 but already learned everything there is at the high school level can go take the GED and, as long as the labor laws will allow it, I'll hire him. Because someone has offered independent verification of his education.

As for "you can't know who's qualified for a job by looking at an application," that's possible, but you can usually tell who isn't qualified by looking at that application. You weed out ones you don't think are worth the effort interviewing to concentrate on who you think is.

You just want preferential treatment for your child because he's been home"schooled." I'm sorry, but it doesn't work that way. I'm holding him to the same standards I hold everyone else. If he doesn't have a diploma, he's not a high school graduate. And a diploma issued by you, as I've said, is just a note from his mom.

Out of curiosity, which University did your son go to that used a grade point average system that allows "greater than 4 point?" In nearly every University, A is 4 points, B is 3, and so on. 4.0 is perfect. How did your son achieve "better than perfect?"