![]() Similarly the “homeschooled” recruits into the Navy tended to have a higher than average incidence of legal waivers for misdemeanors and felonies than traditional school graduates. These “homeschooled” recruits, on average, score no better on the military’s AFQT exam than school graduates, but graduates of the organized homeschooling community usually score above school graduates whenever they take standardized tests. The scores obtained by the military show that they are dealing with a very different sort of homeschooled graduate than those from the organized homeschooling community. And there is nothing in many state laws to say that they actually have to do anything in order to “homeschool.” Students who would otherwise drop-out say that they are “homeschooling” because that makes their resumes look better. The problem is that in many states there are no requirements for either homeschooling or for homeschool graduation. Pennsylvania Homeschoolers Accreditation Agency (with the help of Congressman Joe Pitts) and the Home School Legal Defense Association (with the help of President Bush’s White House staff) have been trying to arrange a compromise with the Pentagon so that those homeschoolers who score above average will be accepted on the same basis as the graduates of traditional schools. There is one ray of hope, however: Those homeschoolers who score above average on the military’s aptitude test (the AFQT) have 12-month attrition rates on a par with those of traditional school students. Homeschool graduates do not stick in the army as well as the graduates of traditional schools. The results are now in, and they are very bad for homeschooling. In the meantime, the military has been conducting a study of the attrition rates of the homeschool graduates. For six years, the military has been enlisting homeschool graduates on the same basis as graduates of traditional high schools. On October 1, 2004, the military changed its policy regarding military enlistment. Homeschool Military Enlistment just got more Difficult by Howard Richman ![]()
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