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> I'd love to see your citations on that.

Yeah, sure. Here are the popular studies on the subject: https://nheri.org/academic-achievement-and-demographic-trait...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15582159.2015.99...

https://nheri.org/a-systematic-review-of-the-empirical-resea...

If you look into these you'll see people arguing against Ray's studies saying "the population is overly white, overly married parents, and overly Christian, it doesn't represent potential results for the wider population". That's definitely true, but it's also a fact of the home-schooled population that those groups are wildly over represented, and the results of that actual population being called "meaningless" is what I was responding to.

It is fair to argue that home-schooling isn't a panacea, and wouldn't work for everyone. I never intended to say it would. I did include the second study which is specifically about black American home-schooled students and their results.

As for the rest of your post, I understand your opinion, but don't share it.



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