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This too is my experience.

I grew up in a place with a large number of religious organizations and outcome of this is what I would consider abuse in a huge number of cases. Would the children themselves think so at the time, kinda hard when you're taught "spare the rod, spoil the child" and "Of course the Earth is only 6000 years old" daily.

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I guarantee you (and the data backs this up) that the home schooled religious kids that are taught the earth is 6,000 years old and were spanked can run circles academically around the average public school kid.

You didn’t provide “the data” - and I doubt it backs up your specific claim here.

The data has been posted elsewhere in this post but here is some more below [0]. Why do you assume religious homeschoolers would perform worse than non-religious homeschoolers? Thanks for downvote :)

[0] 78% of peer-reviewed studies on academic achievement show homeschool students perform statistically significantly better than those in institutional schools (Ray, 2017). Source and lots of other good tidbits: https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/#:~:te....)

You did provide some “data” and it doesn’t mention your specific claim.

I’m not sure why you would even distinguish religious home schoolers from non religious. Some quick googling shows that 90% of home school parents are religious which would back up my claim. I’m sorry you hate religious people?

Your specific claim was not about religious versus non religious students. It was about a very narrow subset of students.

Your continual assumptions about me are both wrong and offensive.

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