Sunshine Supergirl

>Most of the people I talk to about homeschooling are shocked when I
>tell them that my children don't want to go to college and I'm not going to
>encourage it. <snip>

You make so many important points here -- my brother is 19, and probably the
smartest person I know, in a lot of different ways. He has musical
intelligence (he plays guitar in a ska-punk band and writes all their songs),
test-score intelligence (1420 on the SATs w/out studying at all), computer
intelligence (started writing manuals for computer games for money when he was
14), he's a good writer (had a chapter of a book published when he was 16, and
that chapter (and only that chapter) was reprinted in a natl games magazine),
etc, etc, etc...

He doesn't want to go to college. He's working at a job he absolutely adores,
he has his own apt. and an active life here, plus his band of course. There's
no way he'd wanna leave, and he doesn't have TIME! He's doing great, but
people always freak out and talk about how his talents are being "wasted" --
imagine that, he's wasting his talents by using them in living his life!!!

Now, I actually do want to go to college. Always have, not because of pushing
from my family or anything like that, but because I think the college
environment is one I would absolutely adore -- especially at the specific
colleges I like, all but one of which are itsy bitsy liberal arts colleges.
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