There’s an interesting movement taking place across America these days.  While all over the world tensions are heating up over wars and saber rattling, while the collective economies worldwide are in shambles and while most of the rest of the world, it would seem, are on their Internet blogs, a small, but growing number of parents are beginning to home school their children.

A survey released in December of 2008 done by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics reported that in the Spring of 2007, over 1.5 million children were being home schooled.  And that was up over 400,000 kids from just four years earlier.  And almost double the figure from 1999. What’s going on?

The top three reasons parents gave for home schooling were:

1. They had concern about the school environment.
2. They wanted to provide more religious or moral instruction.
3. They had dissatisfaction with the academic instruction available. Read the rest of this entry »

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