Great Britain is seeing more and more of its citizens turning away from government education and embracing schooling at home:
134 local education authorities in England, Scotland and Wales replied to our freedom of information request.Of those with year-on-year trends, 103 – or 80 per cent – reported an increase in the number of children they knew were being home educated.
And in those authorities with figures for the last five years, there’s been an average increase of 61 per cent in the number of children being educated at home.
In some areas it’s far higher – Lancashire for example has seen an 829 per cent increase in home schooling since 2002.
Good for them. I am an advocate for homeschooling. I think it is the responsibility of parents to ensure their kids are educated and know parents can do a better job than government schools. The evidence is out there. Homeschoolers out perform government schoolers all the time. Not only that, but it saves Americans money:
It is estimated that there are 2 million kids homeschooled in the United States during the 2002-2003 school year. Homeschooling has been growing at a rate of about 7% over the last 4 years according the U.S. Department of Education.
According to homeschool researcher, Dr. Brian Ray, homeschoolers save American taxpayers about 10 billion dollars per year.
As a group, in study after study, homeschoolers outperform public school students in academic performance.
Win-Win situation.
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