Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 06/14/13 at 12:27:45:

+1.
The only problem is- a home schooled elementary kid is going to have quite a battle acclimatizing to the public system when they get to high school, socially and academically. 1/2 time home schooling is the way to go.

IMHO that is a pretty silly video. Their statistics are interesting, though, if they aren't biased, and they probably are, because they are trying to sell something.
I can speak from somewhat personal experience here. My oldest son was identified as gifted while in grade 5. At the Board's suggestion we put him in a gifted class, way across town, for grades 6,7,8. The class had around ten kids in it, with only one teacher (who I went to high school with and dated briefly- small world), who stayed together all three years, with the occasional kid leaving or entering the class. They were considered outsiders by the rest of the school population, including the teachers. When he went to high school, still in the gifted program for grades 9 and 10, a lot of his elementary class was there.
When he got to grade 11 he was dumped into the regular population, and had a difficult time. He was used to pursuing knowledge in an informal, work on your own at your own speed manner, and that did not sit well with his teachers. Teachers are only human and a couple of them resented the fact that he knew more about aspects of their curriculum than they did. He found it difficult to relate to "regular" students, as did the other gifted kids there, so they hung around together.
Not a very positive educational experience for him. When my youngest was identified as a candidate for the gifted program he asked me about it, and I told him to talk to his brother about it. He decided to stay in the regular program.
Now, extrapolate this scenario from a small group of students learning from one teacher, to a solitary student learning from a parent, and you can see the difficulties involved.

We dont need a way to home school our elementary and middle and high school kids while paying taxes on houses we own in the school district.

We need a bloody way to home school our kids via college so we dont have to pay their exorbitant rates for getting 8th grade english taught to 700 students who are studying biology and chemistry.

Talk about shining a bright light on a non problem and dividing the people while the problem continues un abated.

Cool.
Srinath.