Home Schooling

Welcome to Home Schooling.

Show Notes:

 U.S. Census Bureau 2005 American Community Survey:

• 2,458,806 children being raised by grandparents today
• 6% of children live in households headed by a grandparent

Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 from the National Center for Education Statistics (US Department of Education):

• 1,096,000 children in the spring of 2003 – 29% increase from 850,000 children in 1999
• Rate of home schooling – from 1.7 % in 1999 to 2.2% in 2003
• Why:
  • Concern about the environment of other schools – such as safety, drugs or negative peer pressure
  • To provide religious or moral instruction
  • Dissatisfaction with academic instruction in school
• 41% of students had engaged in some sort of distance learning