You seem awfully certain this is the result of your homeschooling program rather than factors outside of your control. Have you considered that perhaps you're just lucky to have children that are fast and easy learners?
Have you considered that perhaps most children would benefit from another kind of education than the trivial **** they are taught in school - in particular in the early classes? Have you considered that it slows
everybody down?
I'm not sure what broader lessons are supposed to be derived from the experience of prodigy students enrolling in college at very young ages. Public schools have the challenge of trying to educate all students, from the most exceptional (on both extremes) to the average.
Have you considered that
"trying to educate all students, from the most exceptional (on both extremes) to the average," may be one of the most idiotic ways of teaching kids
anything?
The kids who (for whatever reason) already grasped what is being taught are bored out of their skulls by having to listen to the same stuff being taught over and over. And the ones who haven't yet grasped it (for whatever reason) learn top pretend that they did and accept that the class moves on to a new theme even though they still haven't grasped the old one which they needed to understand in order to grasp the new stuff. They are stuck, but since
"schools have the challenge of trying to educate all students, from the most exceptional (on both extremes) to the average," the class has to move on.
A real-life anecdote: An ex-girlfriend of mine, a German, made a living teaching students who suffered from so-called
dyscalculia (Wikipedia). Some people consider it to be a parallel to dyslexia, and Wiki's article describes it as if it were a brain disorder. I don't know if it is in some cases, but the institute that my ex worked for used analytical tests to find out where the students got stuck. Something like this:
Dyskalkulie: Qualitative Diagnostik (Wikipedia)
I don't know how well it translates into English using Wikipedia, but the point is that students often find their ways to do calculations or math that may work to some extent with small numbers, and then they get stuck using their own method and are lost when the class moves on. And teachers often aren't aware of what happens, and the children are then hopelessly lost.
The analytical tests point out at which stage the students were lost, so their mistake can be corrected by means of
Integrative Lerntherapie Wikipedia).
Schools aren't usually equipped to do that, and the children are then lost - sometimes forever. But that's how the school system works. The obvious problem that some students already understand everything and others understand nothing is handled by means of
grades and and selection: The students who understand everything are rewarded with good grades, receive more education and end up in college. The students who understand nothing because the bloody school system failed them get bad grades, are excluded from further education and since they not only don't understand the curriculum but also don't understand what went wrong, they usually blame themselves and their lacking 'knack'. IQ theory delivers the coup de grâce: They were
born stupid, their
g just wasn't good enough:
IQ: The democratically purified racism (SkepticReport)
How intelligent is the average IQ test designer? (SkepticReport)
I think that this is the first time I've agreed, to some extent, with anything AlaskaBushPilot has said, but I also agree with arthwollipot that not
"all parents are able to do so. Some parents are particularly awful homeschoolers, and should not be allowed to be the sole educators of their children." And
schools make students stupid, so it's kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
As I've mentioned before,
I'd never recommend taking classes as a way to learn languages.
