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...There weren’t many options for us,” Winston says. “My mom wanted us to have a certain set of values growing up, and she wanted to make sure that we got those if we were homeschooled.”The Department of Education reported in 2003 that 2.2 percent of the American school-age population was homeschooled. And experts at the Graduate School of Education say that a majority of those families choose to homeschool their children for religious reasons. But even as the homeschooling trend takes root nationwide, a disproportionately tiny...
...free to explore what interests them. Mujahidah Flint's daughter Tahirrah reads encyclopedias and dictionaries for fun. "I don't like dumb, funny books," she says. "I like the classics . . . Dickens, Kipling." At 10, she wrote her first book; her latest follows a troubled teen whose parents decide to homeschool her. Tahirrah has a clear picture of her future: teaching English in Turkey, her father's homeland, while continuing to write novels. And much of her learning is geared toward that goal...
...opting out of government schools that they could no longer academically or culturally affect on the local level. Numbered at 345,000 students by the U.S. Department of Education in 1994, home education has expanded to more than 2 million students, as reported by Congress’ Homeschool Non-Discrimination Act last July. With that expansion, the stereotype of home educators as reclusive, right-wing Christian fundamentalists has been left in the dust. Today’s home educators include self-proclaimed secularists and Muslim immigrants, traditional Catholics and homosexual partners, Ivy League grad students as well as Bostonians convinced...
...fourth grade, my parents enrolled me in Lutheran grade school. My new peers often failed to recognize the value of scriptural knowledge as my homeschool peers had, but my pastors and teachers usually did. Through four more years of Lutheran catechesis I mastered the Scriptures and the doctrines that Lutherans draw from them and grew greatly in my faith in Jesus Christ and salvation through Him. In my confirmation during my eighth-grade year, I proposed a new theme for my profession of faith speech “What the Scriptures mean to me.” Mine...
Most colleges take a close look at standardized-test scores when weighing homeschool applications and find that homeschoolers outperform their school-educated peers. This year homeschoolers scored an average of 1,100 on the SAT--a full 81 points above the national average--and 22.8 on the ACT, compared with the national average...