a horrific lack of knowledge, grammar, spelling, comprehension, writing and ability to express clear thought among home-schooled individuals. Not that our schools don't have some similar problems, mind you, but it is just so shocking among the home-schooled. Unlike the public and private-schooled there seems to be a much clearer trend of pronunciation problems. They just don't hear names, places, and words important to either current events or history--even really common ones--and as a result have difficulty pronouncing even easy names and places. When they try about four (sometimes bizarre) different ways and continue to stumble, I wonder if they were not taught or had not learned to spell phonetically but, rather visually (which was the case for me given some degree of photographic memory--or at least a combination) and thus pronunciation was just not consistently presented. But, really common last names?
These were not predominantly the homeschooled children of dual worker parents with no time to supervise or even less educated parents themselves, but more often highly educated parents who might specialize in technology, music, business and other fields where broad-based education might seem a given to impart to their children.
Beyond hearing grating mispronunciations of common words and names as well as increasingly repeated names due to current events-- I really have to wonder what some of these kids are learning (and not).
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