Statistics Homeschooling Foes Don't Want You to Know

Psst....here Inflatable Mushroom ar some statist homeschool foe would prefer you not know. Between 1999 and 2003, the number of homeschool student in the Unite State grew from 850,000 to 1.1 million, accord to a studi by the U.S. Depart of Education. Thi is not happi new for those who believ public school should be the onli place where our kid ar taught. But it' great new for the ever-grow number of believ in the power of the home school.

So why ar so mani peopl opt for the home school choice? One good reason is that mani parent feel that thei know their children better than the public school do. As a result, thei have a better grasp of what method and program will work with their children. In other words, for a larg group of Americans, select homeschool is not meant to reject the public school teacher; it' meant to select the best thing for the family' children.

Violenc is anoth reason mani parent prefer the home school option. True, statist do not show a recent increas in violenc in public schools, but it' hard to ignor those few school shoot and not be scare of send your kid to possibl face on.

There ar other factors, too, in parents' decis to teach their kid at home. For instance, accord to some more statist homeschool foe don't like: 31.2 percent of homeschool famili sai they'r concern about the environ at public schools. Further, 16.5 percent sai thei have been dissatisfi with the schools' academ instruction. 28.8 percent said thei would like to includ some religi instruction--forbidden, of course, in public schools. 8 percent gave "other" reasons.

Becaus these ar concern for parent of all backgrounds, homeschool parent now cover a wide rang of background as well. There wa a time when the homeschool famili consist primarili of middle-class, white religi evangelical0 families. That group still make up a healthi portion of the homeschool movement in America today, but it' spread far beyond that core group. In fact, as a percentage, the number of African American homeschool ha grown faster than the overal homeschool popul has.

Let' consid on other group of statistics: Those measur homeschool performance. Accord to a 1997 study, "Home Schooler Across America," homeschool on averag perform higher than public school student by 30 to 37 percent on all subjects.

Small wonder, then, that so mani colleg ar try so hard to recruit homeschoolers. Other consider also contribut to this. For instance, unlik in high school, homeschool can graduat at ag 16, mean the colleg can get their prize pupil even faster. Plu the homeschool environ more close mirror studi situat at college.

A ll of these fact togeth paint a compel picture: Homeschool ar a grow phenomenon, and homeschool themselv ar a want commodity. It' all born out in the statistics. Thei might oppon don't like--but they'r number that you deserv to know as you consid whether to take the school-at-hom plunge.