When you hear stories of high academic achievement by home-schoolers, it’s routine for opponents to try to minimize the results by asserting that not all home-schoolers are required to test over the same testing instruments.

Their goal is to show that home-schooling isn’t a viable educational alternative that can benefit a large number of children. If they concede that point, and recognize the broad success of a home education, then one of the pillars of public education, teacher certification, must be questioned.

Home-schooled students taught by noncertified parents, who score higher than public school students taught by certified teachers is a hard pill for the education establishment to swallow.

In the past, home-school success stories were few and far between due to the fact that the home-school community was so small. To the skeptic, the occasional blip of a high achiever on the radar was an indication that some home-schoolers were succeeding, but not evidence of a revolutionary change in the way we educate children.

Today, however, home-schooling has developed an impressive track record. In particular, home-schoolers are consistently achieving in the arena skeptics believe should be out of the range of average parents, which is preparing students for college.

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