Academic success truly translates to real world success, whether you have the awards or not. I don't have a college degree, but I have attended a decent amount of college before giving up. If you were homeschooled you really have no business commenting on anything publicly, to be honest. Homeschooling that I'm familiar with is just religious indoctrination.
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You aren't telling me anything I haven't already lived. I play ball in engineering big leagues and always feel so out of place. š
The guys that run the cnc's where I work are the real engineers, not the dude's with the title's in the front office.
Shit, I started as a button masher. Literally. Twin spindle Okuma lathe cell with a couple FANUC six axis arms. Worked my way up to quality inspector, gage technician, then CMM programmer, and finally quality engineer. Been a long fucking road but I'm here, god dammit.
You havenāt met many homeschoolers then.
My grandparents lived next to a whole family of them, and she encouraged me to go over there and play with them because they were "deeply spiritual people" and it's exactly as creepy as it sounds. š
Yeah, Iāve met those people. Theyāre just as creepy to the rest of us as they are to you.
I was homeschooled K-12, maintained a 4.0 GPA in college while I was in (left for job) and work in software. I attribute most of my success to being homeschooled.
My best friend was 20 and had a third grade education. Religious nut homeschooled.
People like that give the community a black eye. We did the whole ācooperative educationā thing so we met kids our age who were homeschooled and did field trips. Itās probably about 5% nutters. Most of them are truly concerned about education quality.