[Magdalen] Chicken pox

[Charles Wohlers]

Indeed. My own homeschooled son graduated from Harvard (Extension) a couple 
of years ago. Younger son Christopher, also homeschooled, graduated from 
Pitzer College (one of the Claremont colleges in CA) with a double major in 
physics and math. It probably helped that both took classes at the local 
community college prior to 4-year college, which was much, much better at 
dealing with students with differences than was the local high school.


Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jay Weigel
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 11:15 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Chicken pox

MIT has a lot of that among non-homeschooled students, I believe, so it's
hardly a fair comparison. It's a school with a rigorous curriculum and a
stifling atmosphere, from all I've heard. There are homeschooled students
doing very well at a lot of other places, including Harvard right next door.

Tennessee had its first homeschooled female basketball player several years
ago. Taber Spani graduated with honors while playing on one of the top
teams in the country.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:30 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIK all the colleges and universities here require proof of 
> immunization.
>
> About home schooling: I dealt with at least a dozen of those students when
> I was at MIT. Not one of them made it through the freshman year. A couple
> of spectacular breakdowns, a couple of sad collapses, at least one suicide
> IIRC. So terribly sad. Believe me, if they're not fitting in well in high
> school, college might actually be much, much worse.
> -M
>