I'm guessing most homeschoolers can tie their own shoes

Joanne Jacobs writes about a sad trend: Students can't tie their own shoes:

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In recent years, college students have lost the ability to tie their own shoes, writes Jerry Weinberger, a Michigan State political science professor, on City Journal. Without their helicopter parents, students lose syllabi, break appointments and can't find the final exam. They don't buy the right books — and as many as 20 percent don't read the books, Weinberger believes.


Before 2004, his final exams would pose essay questions like "Compare Hobbes and Nietzsche on the question of religion" and "What is the difference between Marx and Locke on the origins of private property?" That's impossible now. Too many would flunk.
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I've heard that in general most colleges find homeschoolers are responsible and serious about higher education.

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