>The issue is a matter of culture, not of access to teachers or the Internet. I home school my children and they have NO access to the Internet
Leaving aside the part of "absolutely NO access to the Internet", which already puts a cult-like vibe on your whole comment, how can you say that? How can you say "access to teachers and resources doesn't matter"?? Your kids definitely have incredible access to resources (if not teachers, in the traditional sense), so I struggle to think how you can produce such an egregious affirmation!
Some of these children from low income areas are subject to deprivations that you wouldn't even believe. Some of them have no mother or father, or no home, let alone a "positive family culture". They study in underfunded schools in a neglected and neglectful system. If you had even the slightest idea of what it was to be in their shoes... To go hungry to school. To hear your parents fighting as you try to concentrate for an important test. To be shivering with cold at night. To live surrounded with pervasive violence. To have your shit stolen all the time, having to be on your guard. To be bullied. To be engulfed in an inescapable, all-encompassing feeling of pure hopelessness. Maybe you do and you don't care? I'm not sure.
>They were teaching themselves and pulling ahead of their peers years ago.
>they also love to hunt, camp, hike and play baseball but they keep it in it's proper place.
>My children are the way they are because of our family culture.
Yes, I'm sure they're perfect little geniuses. Everybody in a cult is also perfect, according to the cult.