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RE: Is Child Protective Services Unfairly Targeting Homeschool Families? And if so, why?

in #life7 years ago (edited)

Interesting post. I just found this statistic on US Department of Education web site
Parents' Reasons for Homeschooling Their Children (in percentages), by reasons parents gave as important and most important
Reason 2011-2012
A desire to provide religious instruction 64
A desire to provide moral instruction 77
A concern about environment of other schools 91
A dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools 74
A desire to provide a nontraditional approach to child's education 44
Child has other special needs 16
Child has a physical or mental health problem 15
Other reasons 37

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@lakshmi
Thank you very much for providing us with these stats! Much appreciated! :)

My pleasure.