RE: The true solution

When I was in Europe last year, nearly everyone I met thought all Americans were hyper-religious, evangelical Christians. They thought this because it seems to them like the majority of news they hear out of the US and the majority of spam they get from US organizations in their inboxes seems to verify that it is true. Anyone who lives here knows this just isn’t so. We simply have a very vocal fundamentalist minority.

Same goes for the fundamentalist Christian homeschoolers. Yes, they exist, but they certainly are not indicative of the majority of homeschoolers. These families also exist within public and private schools, and they can opt to have their child excused from religiously objectional classes.

As far as studies and head counts go, the federal government’s study doesn’t work at all for the enormous state of California. Most homeschoolers here are considered private school students. We don’t get counted at all as homeschoolers. Or they are public school independent study students in a state where discovering which public schools are operating virtually and which are site based is tricky, so most of them don’t get counted at all either. So, in California at least, those figures are way, way off. The lines between private, public and home education are very blurred here.

Loren
Media Chair
www.californiahomeschool.net