A new report shows that the homeschooling movement is growing exponentially. One reason for this, according to the report, is that first-generation homeschoolers who came of age during homeschooling’s initial boom in the early nineties are now coming of age as parents themselves. Many of them are choosing to homeschool their young children.
As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject public schools.
A recent report in Education News states that, since 1999, the number of children who are homeschooled has increased by 75%. Though homeschooled children represent only 4% of all school-age children nationwide, the number of children whose parents choose to educate them at home rather than a traditional academic setting is growing seven times faster than the number of children enrolling in grades K-12 every year…
Watch for this trend to continue in the coming years.
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Nathan Harden is editor of The College Fix and author of SEX & GOD AT YALE: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad.
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