Kids in College by the Age of 12

[cookderosa]

I didn't think they were advocating highly directed homeschooling. I got the opposite idea of this family's style from reading the article above:

"Give control to the kids. It may be scary at first, but when you see your kids beginning to read all the books they can find on their favorite topic, trust that there is real learning taking place."

Yes, but that's not how you earn college credit. Earning college credit requires completing a series of tasks as defined by the teacher/college, which is directed. All of us here know lots of things about lots of things that we learned outside of a classroom. In fact, part of testing out's appeal might be that we can do it quickly without all the high degree of direction that comes from sitting in a classroom for 16 weeks. The children in that family are taking college classes, not doing PLAs (which might be more aligned with the notion of kid-directed-learning...)

I love sharing my views, but I don't think they are any more valid than anyone else's. I'm certainly not suggesting "my" opinion on homeschooling is better than hers (or yours, etc.). I just mostly wanted to address LateBloomer's comment that asked if this was the same approach I took to homeschooling.