Homeschooling is partially to blame for the decline of private schools, and it is increasingly popular with internet curriculums that almost free Mom from having to be a full time teacher.
Nearly every family I know with more than three children that opts out of public school homeschools due to cost.
I only expect that to increase due to:
A. numeric growth of the population that homeschools, with second generation groups engaging in it with their children
B. between Christian and public education online programs, it becomes more acceptable for everyone to find an online program to use.
C. the growth of homeschooling coops that are a hybrid of private and home schooling, so that you have language lessons, science lessons and PE with a group two days a week but at a fraction of the cost of private schooling all week
D. as it becomes more mainstream, more people who want to opt out of public schools are more likely to know someone who did it and thus it isn’t a weird group out in the wilderness but more like tutoring at home - therefore, OK to try
I understand this is an old thread, but I wanted ot point out that an internet curriculum will free the well behaved from the feral.