Once considered an underground sector of education, home schooling is now recognized as a legal practice in all 50 states and therefore deemed a viable alternative to public school education. ... In 1985, approximately 50,000 children were being home schooled and today it has been estimated that nearly 1.5 to 2 million children (about 3 to 4 percent of school-aged children nationwide) are partaking in the home schooling phenomenon (Lines, 2000, 12). ... Also, children that are home schooled miss out on important milestones like graduations, transitioning to new schools, building new friendship...

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