Homeschooling Gaining Acceptance Among Society Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd The numbers indicate that although many in academia continue to oppose, ridicule homeschoolers, and marginalize them, the movement is increasingly gaining acceptance among many segments of society. Homeschooling has doubled USA Today reported last year that in 1999, out of the entire population of school age children, a paltry 850,000 were being homeschooled. However, by the 2011-2012 school year that number had ballooned to 1.77 million, more than double the 1999 numbers. This shows a complete lack of confidence in public schools where the fed’s commoncore is trying to establish a foothold. Whereas federal numbers only cover up homeschooling numbers through 2012, the Florida Department of Education issued a more recent report showing that the state experienced its largest increase in homeschooling in the past five years under the Obama regime. "The number of homeschooled children in Florida saw its biggest increase in five years during 2014-15. Last year, the state counted 84,096 children in home schooling, up 9.6 percent from a year earlier," the report said.
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