Home Schooling - Growing Fast!
 

according to data from the US Dept. of Education, while the total number of students in the US grew by 1% from 1999 to 2003, during that same period the number of home schooled students grew by 29%.

  1999 2003 Increase
Total Students in US 50.2M 50.7M 1%
Home Schooled Students 850,000 1,096,000 29%
% Home Schooled 1.7% 2.2%  

 
Three key reasons given for home schooling are:

(1) concern about public school environment
(2) to provide religious or moral instruction
(3) dissatisfaction with academic instruction of public schools