According to Fox News, 1.5 million kids in America are now home-schooled, up 75% in the last 8 years! The main reasons include religion, disappointment with school atmosphere, and disappointment with academic standards of schools. I think this is more evidence of both the effectiveness of home-schooling and also the growing social acceptance of the practcie. We do it, and observing just the social effects on kids who go to school is enough to justify the decision in my opinion. I'm continuously amazed that "social skills" is the oft-trotted-out argument, since the observable evidence about impact on a child's behavior from school is so obvious and negative.
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