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According to United States census data, more than half of homeschooling families have two working parents, compared to half of non-homeschooling families having
by pattrn 10y ago
According to United States census data, more than half of homeschooling families have two working parents, compared to half of non-homeschooling families having one working parent and one non-working parent [1]. This data was collected in 2007, so it may differ from today's distribution. I'm not sure how these families pull it off, but academic scores indicate that they apparently do.
It's possible that when the data refers to two parents in the labor force it means that both parents are employable, as opposed to employed. That doesn't make sense to me, however, as it would indicate that half of non-homeschooled families have only one employable parent. Unfortunately, I don't currently have the time to drill down into the raw data to investigate the definition they used.
https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/12statab/educ.pdf https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/12statab/educ.pdf (Table 240)
- r00fus 10y agoIs that just an all-day nanny/private tutor? So what does dual-income homeschooling mean? Seems like a stretch of the terminology to call it "homeschooling".
- pattrn 10y agoWith only a third of homeschooling households making over $75,000 per year, I can't imagine that a significant portion have a nanny. Then again, having never hired a nanny, I have no clue what they cost. Perhaps one parent works at night, or one parent works from home. Either way, it's definitely a curious statistic.