Public Schools
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in its The Condition of Education, 2009 Report, 38% of the homeschoolers in this country are homeschooling for reasons related to public school safety concerns, environmental concerns, or failure of their local public schools to provide quality academic instruction. Compare that to 36% who homeschool for reasons of a religious or moral nature, according to the same report. In other words, dissatisfaction with the public school system has surpassed religious motivations for leading families into choosing homeschooling. What that should be saying to educators of all types in this country, is that homeschooling is no longer an isolated portion of the population, but a growing movement that is affecting all families, all school districts, and all future citizens of this country.
As an advocate of homeschooling, and author of numerous methods, tips and strategies on how to homeschool effectively, these statistics do not alarm me, however they should alarm non-homeschooling families. They should alarm public school educators. Yet, while I advocate homeschooling as a viable, high quality, richly rewarding, and profoundly fitting way to prepare students for higher education, I am also a product of a quality Summer School Uk education myself. So, I cannot deny that there are good public schools out there, good public school teachers, and systems that are working. But they are fewer in number than they used to be according to the perception of the public as evidenced in this report.
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