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Depending on your area homeschooling can offer as many or more opportunities as the public schools. You can also get athletic scholarships. I know 2 boys from our local homeschool group who did. The local public schools allowed students from our homeschool groups to come in and join in select classes, athletics, and use the chemistry labs. We had access to some college programs as well. The local technical college allowed some of our highschool homeschool students to take the entry test for certain freshman classes. Before my brother graduated from highschool he already had 12 college credits under his belt and had tutorage from college professors. My brother participated in soccer and basketball competition between our homeschool group and the public schools in the area. At my highschool graduation there were 4 other homeschoolers graduating and we had our current state senator come to speak. It was awesome. I attended public school from K-6th grade. I really feel I had many more opportunites because of the freedom that homeschooling offered, the cooperative environment of our public schools and colleges in the area, and the homeschool group which we were involved. Many of the parents worked in high profile jobs and we had oppotunities to tour the jail, lawyer offices, insurance companies and see behind the scenes in many places. We were able to go in smaller groups than a public school class could accomplish and that smaller number opened more doors for us. Because of the atmosphere of homeschooling in our area and my background in teaching it would be foolish for me to send my daughter to the inferior quality public schools (an parochial) that we have in our area.
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