But interruptions and distractions are a way of college life, and as home schooled kids set their sites on higher education, they need to be intellectually and emotionally ready. A child in the public school system or a private school system gets other views from teachers and testing, she said. While only 29 states require annual progress tests of home schoolers, experts said all home school parents should use that objective measure of their child s progress as a matter of course. If that student s scores are significantly below the average, I think the parent needs to then say, maybe the student needs more at this point than what I have to offer, Dr. Garber said.
Special classes can provide the answer to the outside testing and influences a child.
I have ruined my child s future. Don t panic. You haven t ruined them. College is still an option and their future can remain in tact. It may just take a little extra work on your part.