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Homeschooling: A Growing Alternative.
Many parents today are assuming personal responsibility of their child’s education by choosing to home school, a growing alternative to public schooling. Across the United States, there has been an increase in the number of families who choose to school their children in the privacy of their own homes. Some parents withdraw their children or perhaps never elected to enroll them in public schools that were once considered the norm; reasons vary from safety, religious, moral issues to assuring their child receives a more personal approach to teaching. Regardless of the reason, homeschooled students are statistically outperforming their public school peers through advancing in academics.
Academically, the performances of home school students are the most impregnable aspect of their education. According to a study by the National Home Education Research Institute in 1997, on average, homeschooled students from Kindergarten through twelfth......

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