The topic of home schooling is an issue being taken much serious this day in age. There are many more people experiencing this peculiar type of learning. The numbers seem to increase all of the time. People are not to sure if home schooling is giving a better education to students or is traditional schooling a better type of learning. Home schooling is on the rise in popularity and production and it seems to be the best way of learning.
             Much has changed for home schooling in recent years, including the profile of those taking this interesting way. Early on, Christian families would use this as a common route towards their family's education. In recent years Jews and Muslims also have entered the ways of home schooling for much the same reasons as the Christians Right. One educator has suggested that there is more than a religious component. "While the religious component clearly endures, many in the newest wave of home educators are motivated by secular goals"(Klicka 108). Beyond this "A 1996 survey conducted by the Florida Department conducted by the Florida Department of Education revealed that sixty-one percent of parent educators ranked this type of dissatisfaction as their primary reason for home schooling, surpassing religious reasons, which claimed twenty-one percent for the second straight year"(109).
             A common thread in the fabric of home schooling consciousness is clearly a desire to get back to basics. Home schoolers are playing out a simpler, more wholesome way of life that places the family at its center. Those within the ranks of this growing counterculture often shoulder a vivid awareness to its historical underpinnings. They will tell you that family instruction was a mainstay of American life until the mid-nineteenth century, that public schools are a relatively new phenomenon with dubious merits for individuals and society.
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