[Carry_Okie]

If parents withdraw their kids to homeschool, they will simply come after homeschooling, like the Germans did.

While that is a threat, home education laws have been getting MORE liberal rather than less. Home school parents are an extremely effective and well organized lobby. They now constitute nearly 3-5% of the total number of students. More importantly, the public impression of home educated students has nearly totally changed from one of suspicion to one of high approval.

The only venue the liberals have left to put the home school geinie back in the bottle is international law. The more outstanding graduates we produce, the harder that will be to do. Given that the home school population is at least 3% of the total and has grown pretty steadily at 10-15% per year for about a decade, at the lower rate, in five years it will be 5% of the total. At the higher rate of growth, we'll be there in eight years. If it hits 10%, IMO the public schools will start to collapse, because the difference will be so glaring that the public will no longer support the product.

I have a plan for that end game.

[JenB]

My husband and I are both homeschool graduates. You can be sure our kids will be homeschooled! Second generation of homeschoolers is where the growth really gets big. Your numbers may be on the low side if you're looking a decade out.

[wintertime]

I have a plan for that end game.
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What is that plan?

Also...I find it infuriating. I believe the government is deliberately undercounting homeschooling.

For **years** I've been hearing that homeschoolers number 2 million. How can that be when it is evidently growing so fast?

[redgolum]

With the current education treaties, homeschooled children will be soon written out of any chance at higher education. There is a big push to make our laws "conform" to an international standard.

[Aquinasfan]

Given that the home school population is at least 3% of the total and has grown pretty steadily at 10-15% per year for about a decade, at the lower rate, in five years it will be 5% of the total. At the higher rate of growth, we'll be there in eight years. If it hits 10%, IMO the public schools will start to collapse, because the difference will be so glaring that the public will no longer support the product.

I'm not assuming a linear growth rate. If the number gets above 5% I'd be amazed. But I hope I'm amazed, I really do.