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The quality of public schools in America is rapidly declining. Drug and alcohol busts, fights, and negative peer pressure are things that many public school students face every day. Most students don't bat an eyelash as they walk through metal detectors each morning, nor are they surprised when police spray pepper gas at the Jr. High dance. For many students schools are no longer places of education, but constant headaches they are forced to carry with them for twelve long years. There seems to be no escape, and for many who can't afford private schools—no better option. But unbeknownst to many, there is one: home schooling.

For most, the stereotypical home schooling family is this: a housewife in a denim jumper dress, a strict, fundamentalist father, and their fifteen sheltered children. While home schooling families like these exist, they are certainly the exception, not the rule. Many are unaware that homeschoolers lead perfectly normal lives. In fact, most know nothing of......

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