Bill to force homeschoolers to warrantless home inspections

[BULLDOG]

There is a huge push by the left to infiltrate our homes and take our children via the schools. Progressive states are hiring an ARMY of fanatical child welfare workers, who will do *home visits* with snap/tanf workers and *look* for reasons to take kids.

The schools likewise are pushing hard against home schooling because child welfare and the schools work hand in hand to interrogate and infiltrate homes via counselors and various and assorted school programs which consist of asking kids pointed questions, having them fill out questionnaires, and then calling the police and child welfare if there's anything *funny*.

Yet they refuse to call the police or child welfare when there are complaints of school employees diddling kids.

Get your kids out of public schools. If you are on foodstamps or take ANY sort of public assistance, get off it now. You're being targeted and not for nice things.

I'm not saying you, personally, but a lot of abusers use the ruse of "homeschooling" to keep their kids from being under a school's watchful eye. I've seen it done plenty and those kids haven't got books or worked on anything in months or even since forever.
Rather than home visits, schools should REQUIRE all homeschoolers to take the achievement tests with the rest of their class, and if they have fallen behind, work with the parents on an action plan.
It's for the kids' sake, KG.

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

 

[Rustic]

There is a huge push by the left to infiltrate our homes and take our children via the schools. Progressive states are hiring an ARMY of fanatical child welfare workers, who will do *home visits* with snap/tanf workers and *look* for reasons to take kids.

The schools likewise are pushing hard against home schooling because child welfare and the schools work hand in hand to interrogate and infiltrate homes via counselors and various and assorted school programs which consist of asking kids pointed questions, having them fill out questionnaires, and then calling the police and child welfare if there's anything *funny*.

Yet they refuse to call the police or child welfare when there are complaints of school employees diddling kids.

Get your kids out of public schools. If you are on foodstamps or take ANY sort of public assistance, get off it now. You're being targeted and not for nice things.

I'm not saying you, personally, but a lot of abusers use the ruse of "homeschooling" to keep their kids from being under a school's watchful eye. I've seen it done plenty and those kids haven't got books or worked on anything in months or even since forever.
Rather than home visits, schools should REQUIRE all homeschoolers to take the achievement tests with the rest of their class, and if they have fallen behind, work with the parents on an action plan.
It's for the kids' sake, KG.

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

 

[BULLDOG]

There is a huge push by the left to infiltrate our homes and take our children via the schools. Progressive states are hiring an ARMY of fanatical child welfare workers, who will do *home visits* with snap/tanf workers and *look* for reasons to take kids.

The schools likewise are pushing hard against home schooling because child welfare and the schools work hand in hand to interrogate and infiltrate homes via counselors and various and assorted school programs which consist of asking kids pointed questions, having them fill out questionnaires, and then calling the police and child welfare if there's anything *funny*.

Yet they refuse to call the police or child welfare when there are complaints of school employees diddling kids.

Get your kids out of public schools. If you are on foodstamps or take ANY sort of public assistance, get off it now. You're being targeted and not for nice things.

I'm not saying you, personally, but a lot of abusers use the ruse of "homeschooling" to keep their kids from being under a school's watchful eye. I've seen it done plenty and those kids haven't got books or worked on anything in months or even since forever.
Rather than home visits, schools should REQUIRE all homeschoolers to take the achievement tests with the rest of their class, and if they have fallen behind, work with the parents on an action plan.
It's for the kids' sake, KG.

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

The education of our children is, or should be top priority for their sake, and the country's sake. Disgusting that you would choose to forget that just to adhere to the unabridged right wing dogma.

 

[Rustic]

I'm not saying you, personally, but a lot of abusers use the ruse of "homeschooling" to keep their kids from being under a school's watchful eye. I've seen it done plenty and those kids haven't got books or worked on anything in months or even since forever.
Rather than home visits, schools should REQUIRE all homeschoolers to take the achievement tests with the rest of their class, and if they have fallen behind, work with the parents on an action plan.
It's for the kids' sake, KG.

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

The education of our children is, or should be top priority for their sake, and the country's sake. Disgusting that you would choose to forget that just to adhere to the unabridged right wing dogma.

Na, early on Education should stick to the basics. Putting socialism into the schools is evil at best...

 

[bodecea]

There is a huge push by the left to infiltrate our homes and take our children via the schools. Progressive states are hiring an ARMY of fanatical child welfare workers, who will do *home visits* with snap/tanf workers and *look* for reasons to take kids.

The schools likewise are pushing hard against home schooling because child welfare and the schools work hand in hand to interrogate and infiltrate homes via counselors and various and assorted school programs which consist of asking kids pointed questions, having them fill out questionnaires, and then calling the police and child welfare if there's anything *funny*.

Yet they refuse to call the police or child welfare when there are complaints of school employees diddling kids.

Get your kids out of public schools. If you are on foodstamps or take ANY sort of public assistance, get off it now. You're being targeted and not for nice things.

I'm not saying you, personally, but a lot of abusers use the ruse of "homeschooling" to keep their kids from being under a school's watchful eye. I've seen it done plenty and those kids haven't got books or worked on anything in months or even since forever.
Rather than home visits, schools should REQUIRE all homeschoolers to take the achievement tests with the rest of their class, and if they have fallen behind, work with the parents on an action plan.
It's for the kids' sake, KG.

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

Which is totally the parents' right. In fact, about time some of them took responsibility again.

 

[miketx]

The state inspects day cares, I don't really see the difference.

Of course you don't. A private home is not a day care.

They certainly can be.

Twist and spin.

 

[Rustic]

I'm not saying you, personally, but a lot of abusers use the ruse of "homeschooling" to keep their kids from being under a school's watchful eye. I've seen it done plenty and those kids haven't got books or worked on anything in months or even since forever.
Rather than home visits, schools should REQUIRE all homeschoolers to take the achievement tests with the rest of their class, and if they have fallen behind, work with the parents on an action plan.
It's for the kids' sake, KG.

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

Which is totally the parents' right. In fact, about time some of them took responsibility again.

Homeschoolers generally outperform public school kids, They have no responsibility to prove themselves to anybody then

 

[hazlnut]

Under the guise of preventing child abuse, lawmakers in Maryland have introduced a bill that will allow the state to intrude in the lives of innocent families, keeping tabs on them, and destroying their right to privacy.
Bill to Force Homeschoolers to Warrantless Home Inspections


The sick left will loathe over this one, it's so funny how you losers laugh and support everything ant American, ant freedom, rights etc. until they come for you then it's not so funny any more.

I would encourage you to do a little digging on the story, see what the bill really proposes, and not rely on "infowars" to keep you informed...

BTW - the states already allow warrantless home inspections when child abuse is suspected. In fact, it's easier to remove children from an abusive home than guns - in most states.

 

[jillian]

Under the guise of preventing child abuse, lawmakers in Maryland have introduced a bill that will allow the state to intrude in the lives of innocent families, keeping tabs on them, and destroying their right to privacy.
Bill to Force Homeschoolers to Warrantless Home Inspections


The sick left will loathe over this one, it's so funny how you losers laugh and support everything ant American, ant freedom, rights etc. until they come for you then it's not so funny any more.

so people who are unequipped and untrained to teach should be allowed to do what they want without government holding them accountable?



poor, sad, pathetic, conspiracy loon. it's from infowars, you freak of nature.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

How is teaching your child at home in any way related to child abuse?

 

[BULLDOG]

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

The education of our children is, or should be top priority for their sake, and the country's sake. Disgusting that you would choose to forget that just to adhere to the unabridged right wing dogma.

Na, early on Education should stick to the basics. Putting socialism into the schools is evil at best...

Got it. You don't really care if kids get the education they will need for a productive life. You just want to be a good RWNJ. Why didn't you say that from the start?

 

[BULLDOG]

How is teaching your child at home in any way related to child abuse?

It's not. Not teaching them is.

 

[Cecilie1200]

How Homeschooling Is Sometimes Used to Conceal Child Abuse

Works both ways.

View attachment 182175

No one is denying it works both ways. However, in both public and private schools, there is greater transparency and they get inspected. Homeschools are the wild wild west, answerable to no one but the families.

They have no right to inspect, there is already certain credentials parents must follow which obviously they have and or do.

When this incident takes place it does what I said above, it gives them control, they can threaten the parents, they do not like the kids can NOT be indoctrinated via their ways.

again Public schools do not teach kids " HOW TO THINK" . they teach them WHAT to think that is proven........

I really wish people would BOTHER TO READ THE INFORMATION I POST..... instead dumbed down prefer to think they already know EVERYTHING and everything goin on in their schools.... OMG parent's in the dark don't know the half of it.

Half of societies idiots can't even pick out how psychological warfare works......

View attachment 182178


28 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Are Rapidly Being Turned Into Indoctrination Centers And Prison Camps

In other words - no one has the right to inspect home schools so they can continue to fester with hidden child abuse while you point out the flagrant violations of public schools. Is that what you are saying?

In other words, you think parents should be subjected to regular state inspections and receive permission to parent.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Under the guise of preventing child abuse, lawmakers in Maryland have introduced a bill that will allow the state to intrude in the lives of innocent families, keeping tabs on them, and destroying their right to privacy.
Bill to Force Homeschoolers to Warrantless Home Inspections


The sick left will loathe over this one, it's so funny how you losers laugh and support everything ant American, ant freedom, rights etc. until they come for you then it's not so funny any more.

I would encourage you to do a little digging on the story, see what the bill really proposes, and not rely on "infowars" to keep you informed...

BTW - the states already allow warrantless home inspections when child abuse is suspected. In fact, it's easier to remove children from an abusive home than guns - in most states.

Observe the phrase "when child abuse is suspected". In other words, probable cause. The simple fact that a child is homeschooled isn't probable cause of jack shit.

Of course it's easier to remove children than guns. No one's worried about the GUNS being harmed.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Under the guise of preventing child abuse, lawmakers in Maryland have introduced a bill that will allow the state to intrude in the lives of innocent families, keeping tabs on them, and destroying their right to privacy.
Bill to Force Homeschoolers to Warrantless Home Inspections


The sick left will loathe over this one, it's so funny how you losers laugh and support everything ant American, ant freedom, rights etc. until they come for you then it's not so funny any more.

so people who are unequipped and untrained to teach should be allowed to do what they want without government holding them accountable?



poor, sad, pathetic, conspiracy loon. it's from infowars, you freak of nature.

You're right. People who are unequipped and untrained should NOT be allowed to do what they want without government holding them accountable. That's why I don't send my children to PUBLIC SCHOOL.

As far as private citizens raising their children as they see fit, no. The government does NOT have the right to "hold them accountable" for their private life decisions. I know you understand this concept when the decisions are things you approve of, but shockingly, it applies to all manner of things you don't approve of, as well.

 

[Cecilie1200]

How is teaching your child at home in any way related to child abuse?

They're not being raised to be perfect leftist drones. How DARE a responsible parent deny their child the right to be a useless, whining leech on society for the rest of his/her life?

 

[bodecea]

Some states have no home visits, no tests, no monitoring or required lesson plans of any kind. A quick phone call to the school telling them you will home school, and the kid no longer exists as far as the department of education is concerned.

GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

The education of our children is, or should be top priority for their sake, and the country's sake. Disgusting that you would choose to forget that just to adhere to the unabridged right wing dogma.

Na, early on Education should stick to the basics. Putting socialism into the schools is evil at best...

Public school is socialism....a military is socialism...a social security fund is socialism....medicare is socialism....health and safety standards are socialism.

 

[RealDave]

Under the guise of preventing child abuse, lawmakers in Maryland have introduced a bill that will allow the state to intrude in the lives of innocent families, keeping tabs on them, and destroying their right to privacy.
Bill to Force Homeschoolers to Warrantless Home Inspections


The sick left will loathe over this one, it's so funny how you losers laugh and support everything ant American, ant freedom, rights etc. until they come for you then it's not so funny any more.

Why bot? They are pretending to be educators. We should make sure they have the proper facilities.

We find a lot of child abuse through our school systems.

I think parents who opt to home school should prove they have the education to do so.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Under the guise of preventing child abuse, lawmakers in Maryland have introduced a bill that will allow the state to intrude in the lives of innocent families, keeping tabs on them, and destroying their right to privacy.
Bill to Force Homeschoolers to Warrantless Home Inspections


The sick left will loathe over this one, it's so funny how you losers laugh and support everything ant American, ant freedom, rights etc. until they come for you then it's not so funny any more.

Why bot? They are pretending to be educators. We should make sure they have the proper facilities.

We find a lot of child abuse through our school systems.

I think parents who opt to home school should prove they have the education to do so.

I think your indoctrination into the cult of We Are All Wards of the State has gotten you all turned around. The government answers to the people, not the other way around. To say that individual citizens should have to prove to the state that they meet the state's requirements to live their own lives, make their own decisions, and raise their own children is repugnant.

 

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GENERAL FACTS, STATISTICS, AND TRENDS

• There are about 2.3 million home-educated students in the United States (as of spring 2016). This is up from one estimate that there were about 2 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the United States (Ray, 2011). It appears the homeschool population is continuing to grow (at an estimated 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years).
• Homeschooling – that is, parent-led home-based education; home education – is an age-old traditional educational practice that a decade ago appeared to be cutting-edge and “alternative” but is now bordering on “mainstream” in the United States. It may be the fastest-growing form of education in the United States. Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).
• A demographically wide variety of people homeschool – these are atheists, Christians, and Mormons; conservatives, libertarians, and liberals; low-, middle-, and high-income families; black, Hispanic, and white; parents with Ph.D.s, GEDs, and no high-school diplomas. One study shows that 32 percent of homeschool students are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and others (i.e., not White/non-Hispanic) (Noel, Stark, & Redford, 2013).
• Families engaged in home-based education are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources for their children’s education. The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools
• Taxpayers spend an average of $11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures. Taxpayers spend nothing on most homeschool students and homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.
• Homeschooling is quickly growing in popularity among minorities. About 15% of homeschool families are non-white/nonHispanic (i.e., not white/Anglo).
• An estimated 3.4 million U.S. adults have been homeschooled for at least one year of their K-12 years, and they were homeschooled an average of 6 to 8 years. If one adds to this number the 2.3 million being homeschooled today, an estimated 5.7 million Americans have experienced being homeschooled. [note 1]

REASONS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR HOME EDUCATING
Most parents and youth decide to homeschool for more than one reason. The most common reasons given for homeschooling are the following:

• customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child,
• accomplish more academically than in schools,
• use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools,
• enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings,
• provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults,
• provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools, and
• teach and impart a particular set of values, beliefs, and worldview to children and youth.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• • • The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).
    • Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
    • Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
    • Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
    • Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
    • Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (SOCIALIZATION)

• • • • The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
      • Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
      • Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far.

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH RESPECTED?

• • • • One researcher finds that homeschooling gives young people an unusual chance to ask questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What do I really want?,” and through the process of such asking and gradually answering the questions home-educated girls develop the strengths and the resistance abilities that give them an unusually strong sense of self.
      • Some think that boys’ energetic natures and tendency to physical expression can more easily be accommodated in home-based education. Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

SUCCESS IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ADULTHOOD
The research base on adults who were home educated is growing; thus far it indicates that they:

• • • • participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
      • vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population
      • go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population
      • by adulthood, internalize the values and beliefs of their parents at a high rate

GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH ON HOMESCHOOL SUCCESS OR FAILURE
It is possible that homeschooling causes the positive traits reported above. However, the research designs to date do not conclusively “prove” that homeschooling causes these things. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that homeschooling causes negative things compared to institutional schooling. Future research may better answer the question of causation.

Notes:
1. This estimate was calculated by Brian D. Ray, the author of this fact sheet, on April 7, 2016. He based it on publicly available research findings.

Sources
The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.nheri.org:

• A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls. Susannah Sheffer, 1995.
• A systematic review of the empirical research on selected aspects of homeschooling as a school choice, Brian D. Ray, 2017, Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 604-621 [a peer-reviewed journal] Retrieved February 2, 2018 from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638 For a free copy, contact us.
• Academic achievement and demographic traits of homeschool students: A nationwide study, Brian D. Ray, 2010, Academic Leadership Journal, www.academicleadership.org [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• African American homeschool parents’ motivations for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. Ray, Brian D. (2015a). Journal of School Choice, 9:71–96 [a peer-reviewed journal]. For a free copy, contact us.
• Does homeschooling or private schooling promote political intolerance? Evidence from a Christian university. Cheng, Albert. (2014). Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform, 8(1), 49-68 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, Brian D. Ray, 2004.
• Homeschoolers on to College: What Research Shows Us, by Brian D. Ray, Journal of College Admission, 2004, No. 185, 5-11 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited, Richard G. Medlin, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284-297 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• Homeschooling associated with beneficial learner and societal outcomes but educators do not promote it, Brian D. Ray, 2013, Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 324-341 [a peer-reviewed journal].
• National Education Association. (2014). Rankings of the States 2013 and Estimates of School Statistics 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014 from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/NEA-Rankings-and-Estimates-2013-2014.pdf
• Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028) Noel, Amber; Stark, Patrick; & Redford, Jeremy. (2013). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
• The Truth About Boys and Girls, Sara Mead, 2006.

Yes. Some home schoolers score quite high on tests such as the SAT or the ACT. Those are students who had a curriculum designed for those tests, and specifically to help them in higher education. They likely had parents who insisted that a strict curriculum be followed closely, and used prepared material, and had regularly scheduled testing to gauge their progress. Do you have any idea of the percentage of home schooled children who take that rout? Of course you don't. Nobody does, because in a lot of states, none of that is required. No approval of curriculum. No testing. Nothing to indicate what, if anything the children are learning. If the parent is qualified and cares to make the effort, the outcome can be good, but if a parent isn't, the child is denied an education that he or she will need to thrive in today's society. You ever see a 7 or 8 year old kid that couldn't count change or recite the alphabet? Not because the kid had a learning ability, but because the parent just didn't bother to teach her. That kid just graduated from college with a 4.0. That would have never happened if she wasn't put in school before it was too late. She would be like her siblings that weren't allowed to receive an education, and can only hope to become a shift manager at a chicken place. I'm not against home schooling. I'm against people being able to claim they are home schooling, but having no way to see if they actually are .

Think what you want, Generally seeing is believing.
The fact remains homeschooling is increasing every year for good reasons, personal decisions are none of the collectives business...

The education of our children is, or should be top priority for their sake, and the country's sake. Disgusting that you would choose to forget that just to adhere to the unabridged right wing dogma.

Na, early on Education should stick to the basics. Putting socialism into the schools is evil at best...

Got it. You don't really care if kids get the education they will need for a productive life. You just want to be a good RWNJ. Why didn't you say that from the start?

Lol
Socialism is not necessary...