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). ... According to the survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, "the most common reasons that parents give for home schooling their children are moral or religious reasons, a desire for high educational achievement, dissatisfaction with public schools' instructional program, and concerns about school environment,...

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