Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that between 2003-2012, the number of American children between ages 5 to 17 who are homeschooled has risen 61.8 percent, and that the percentage homeschooled in that age range has increased from 2.2 to 3.4 percent.
According to data published on May 7 by the National Center for Education Statistics(NCES), in 2003 1,096,000 school-aged children were homeschooled in the U.S., representing 2.2 percent of the total number of students in that age range that year. In 2012, the number homeschooled was 1,773,000, or 3.4 percent of elementary and secondary school-aged children that year.
The increase in the number of children homeschooled between 2003 and 2012 is 677,000—or 61.8 percent.
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Getting away from obama brain washing.
ReplyDeletefor the most part, getting a great classical education and not being brainwashed by our government.
ReplyDeleteGreat as long as they aren't living off the grid and under a tarp.
ReplyDeleteAnybody that can, SHOULD get their kids out of the government hell holes now before them turn them into good little mindless socialist drones.
ReplyDelete4:03 its called freedom. Look it up.
ReplyDeleteGovernment schools are nothing more than Marxist indoctrination camps
ReplyDeleteAlso, statistics are proving that most excel in college.
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