So exactly how would they demonstrate their proficiency?
Is there some reason why, since you obviously read my post (given that you quoted the parts you wanted to address) you elided and utterly ignored the part of it that answers the above question?
Here. let me remind you.
I have more than one degree. One required a 'senior project,' for my BA, I had to pass state exams as well as school exams for my teaching credential, and write a thesis for my MA. If I ever decide to get my doctorate, I'll need to write that dissertation. I've taken all the classes and done all the work, but I need to demonstrate to OTHERS that I have done this.
Not every student 'tests well,' but every student can demonstrate his or her understanding in some way that is acceptable to those who are 'in charge.'
You will note that I gave several examples of how students can demonstrate proficiency. These examples are by no means all the options available. papers, projects, research projects, ...lots of options.
And that's the question.....how do we determine that kids from private schools like the one in the OP have that proficiency? Or do we just give them an official high school diploma, even though their education was nowhere near what that usually entails?
I believe I addressed that in the post to which this is an answer. Tell me; do you actually read the posts you want to respond to, or do you write your own script and follow that?
And that actually happens a lot....a kid from some kooky school, or one who's been poorly home schooled, goes to college, takes a couple of placement tests, and bombs. Typically the college has them take a whole bunch of remedial classes.
And that is just plain inaccurate. Colleges are considerably harder on homeschoolers attempting to get in than they are on more traditionally educated students. Even those colleges who are 'test free...' that is, they don't require admission tests for kids with high school diplomas, insist that homeschoolers take those tests.
................and homeschoolers do very well in college, thank you very much. Try ditching your preconceptions and looking at the actual statistics.
I LOVED to see homeschooled students in my "English 99" classes, though I seldom had them, and generally had to 'kick them upstairs" to English 101 before the first month was out. ALL my students came from the local high school. There are a lot of homeschoolers around here, and very few of them attend the local JC. Almost all of 'em were headed to a University of California campus, or Harvard, or.....
I'm not worried about the level of education that homeschooled kids get. I worry a LOT more about the education that the public high school kids don't get.
And I also suppose that such kids will do quite poorly on the SAT and ACT as well, which would hamper their ability to even get into college.
They don't, you know. Homeschooled kids actually do a bit better on SAT and ACT exams than traditionally schooled students. Oh....and it turns out that homeschooled students do BETTER in college than traditionally educated students. That may be because homeschooled students have to jump through more hoops to get into college, and so already have more experience with the sort of academia that they will face there.
In fact, in my experience (and I have a fair amount of it), homeschooled students are more comfortable in a college/university environment. It more closely matches what they are used to, in terms of choice, self discipline, etc., Kids out of high school have NO clue just how different college is.
Of course, all this depends on the parents and the students, but then...what doesn't, in terms of education?
