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As home-schooling moves to mainstream, stigma fades
- JunkDNA 16y agoAnyone have a home-schooling related startup? I have always thought this was a decent-sized market that probably has some seriously under-served customers.
- tokenadult 16y agoThe article says correctly that the number of homeschoolers is somewhat difficult to estimate. But Brian Ray and his colleagues have a known propensity to produce overestimates of the number of homeschoolers, so I doubt the figures cited to him in the article. My family of four children (one now an adult and living on campus at university) have always been homeschooled, but I know a lot of families that start homeschooling at about third grade age, and cease formally homeschooling by high school age. That age pattern is backed up by the statistics from the few states that gather homeschooling statistics stratified by age. See http://learninfreedom.org/homeschool_growth.html http://learninfreedom.org/homeschool_growth.html for some old numbers ("growing rapidly" isn't a correct statement anymore) and discussion of the data reliability issues. The submitted article is correct that stigma attached to homeschooling has diminished considerably over the years.