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Try googling homeschooling, one word. People who actually homeschool do not typically say it as two words.
Honors classes tend to be for screening out the delinquent, the violent, and the incredibly stupid --- definitely not limited to the cream of the crop in most cases. However, it would have been nice to be able to learn some content as opposed to all of the intelligent students being forced to be in the same classroom as the yahoos who would throw staplers at the board while the teacher wasn't looking and generally made learning impossible. After taking the SAT at 16 and getting above a 1550, I still could not convince the school board to let me take college courses for credit --- they said it would be "unfair" to the rest of the kids who didn't have that opportunity! They didn't give a shit that I (and a bunch of my friends) were bored silly by almost every class, and no standardized measure of achievement could sway them towards admitting their classes did not provide enough intellectual stimulation. Public schools punish kids with iniative and independent minds, and rewards those who regugitate what the teachers want to hear.
