Homeschoolers are every where. Why do you think it is growing?
Perhaps, others will begin to notice, as I have, that there are very, very few homeschoolers out there who are obese. ( If they have been homeschooled from the beginning.) I, personally, have **never** met one.
So..Parents are choosing homeschooling because they see the superior academic achievement and socialization of homeschoolers. Perhaps they too, if it is pointed out to them, will see, as I have, that homeschoolers are not likely to be fat.
But,,,I bet,,,That parents deciding on institutionalizing their children, or choosing the more natural environment of the home, will begin to notice that the kids rolling off the big yellow prison buses ( oops! “school” buses) are more than likely to be fat. It’s hard to miss.
What part of NOT IN MY COMMUNITY do you fail to comprehend? Your observations in YOUR commuunity may be true for your community, they are patently FALSE in regard to mine. I do not livein your community and thus can not judge the veracity of your comments, by the same token you do not live in my community and thus can not extrapolate your observations to here.
The homeschoolers I know in this community find your attitude to be a cause for concern about backlash against homeschoolers.....something NOT found in this community according to them.
Your tunnel vision and refusal to respond to direct issues raised by other posters gives them pause to even believe you ever were a homeschooler.
Just because YOU have never experienced something does not mean it does not exist. There ARE fat children who have been homeschooled from the beginning, I have met some.
BTW, my daughter and most of her friends do not ride school buses, they are taken to and picked up every day by a parent or relative.