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If you wonder who it is that's both running and underwriting organizations such as the Family Research Council, Focus On The Family, Freedom Works and other organizers of the 9/12 March and who are the most faithful followers the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh or viewers of Fox News your answer is: it's the home school/Christian school generation of men and women now hitting their thirties and even forties who might as well have been raised on a different planet.
Odd. This is assuming that all children schooled at home are done so by religious means. I would love to see statistics on your assumption, Brain.
almost 3/4 according to research from 2003
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/homeschool/TableDisplay.asp?TablePath=TablesHTML/table_4.asp
Amazing what you didnt show.
Concern about environment of other schools2
Applicable... 935,000 85.4
Most Important....341,000 31.2
Dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools
Applicable....748,000 68.2
Most Important...180,000 16.5
To provide religious or moral instruction
Applicable.... 793,000 72.3
Most important....327,000 29.8
According to the report, families could list more than one reason for homeschooling. Now, the fact that these kids are extremely bright should be adequate proof of how messed up and evil they are being trained to be.
Around the time of Columbine, many homeschool associations experienced a spike in enrollment... parents didnt believe their kids would be safe enough. The trend continues, but now for different reasons, many citing its because they dont like how their children will be influenced at school.
How does that change the fact that 73% listed religious reasons as a reason to home school their children. I will also point out that almost 30% gave religious instruction as the primary reason. Furthermore the only way these numbers work out is if the overwhelming majority of parents who chose school environment as a reason also chose religious instruction. Therefore it is fair to surmise that school environment means exposure to secular culture for at least some of those repsondants and that that group makes up a noticeable percentage who listed school environment as their #1 reason. I will also point out that the group who answered both school environment and religious instruction also chose dissatisfaction with academic instruction which for many of those was certainly dissatisfaction with teaching evolution and sex ed.
So the facts are clear the data shows that for the vast majority of homeschooled in 2003 religious instruction was an important part of their reasons. It is further clear that the other data shows that taking all other factors into account it may be the underlying reason for most.
Yet, oddly enough, the primary reason isnt religion.
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In a quest to find answers I surveyed over 1000 homeschooling families from the United States and Canada. Their responses to my question “What is the top reason you pulled your child out of school, or decided not to send your child to school?” were many. I received over 300 different answers in total, and the most popular are outlined below.
-Lack of individual instruction. Much to my surprise religion was not the number one reason parents choose to homeschool. The overall number one reason the parents I surveyed made the decision to homeschool was the “failure” of government schools, and private schools alike, to provide individualized instruction. Many parents felt their children were being cheated in the traditional school system, and they feel they can provide the better education their children deserve. In most schools individual attention from teachers is less than six minutes per day, total.
-Religious Reasons - The majority of respondents who gave religion as their primary reason for home educating stated that they were conservative Christians. Many conservative Christian families do not believe that a government school can properly teach their children the values and lessons they wish to learn, and they wish to incorporate Biblical training in all aspects of their children’s education. Interestingly, I also heard from families of many other beliefs (Muslim, Buddhist, & Wiccan to name a few) who stated religion as their top reason for homeschooling.
Content copyright © 2009 by Meg Grooms
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art8093.asp
Reasons both parents and children gave for homeschooling.....
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070406212055AAGojbh
To label homeschooling as being primarily for religion is false and misleading.
There are many reasons why parents choose to homeschool their children. According to a 2001 Clearing House article by Michael Romanowski entitled “Common Arguments about the Strengths and Limitations of Homeschooling,” homeschooling families can be broken down into two basic categories.
First there are the ideologues, who educate their children at home because they rebel against conventional schools and want to strengthen their relationships with their children. Romanowski theorizes that, typically, the ideologues choose this form of schooling on the grounds of religion. They feel that they can provide a better spiritual environment for their children than any other school system, placing more emphasis on moral, ethical, and spiritual development.
Pedagogues, the second type of homeschoolers, are more concerned with the value of their children’s education, believing that they can provide a better education for their children than any other type of schooling. They have little faith in the abilities of public school teachers, so they take matters into their own hands. Lines cites a 1995-96 survey, saying that forty-two percent of families who participated in the study listed “dissatisfaction with the public school instructional program” as their primary reason for homeschooling.
Read more: http://homeschooling.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_history_of_homeschooling#ixzz0R5BPPIQR
So while you try to paint homeschooling as some religous movement out to destroy the world... it is in fact a group of parents who want better for their children then what public schools offer
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