THIRTY years ago, there were approximately 20,000 children educated at home in this country. A recent study puts the number at two million, or four percent of all school-age children. This is a remarkable development. Colleges now routinely accept homeschoolers.

The home schooling movement represents a successful challenge to the ideology and power of state-controlled schooling. All parents should welcome the growth of this movement whether they themselves home school or not. The homeschooling movement has led to parent-controlled ventures in education throughout the nation. Homeschooling is creating better schools.

The goal for traditionalists is not to abolish all schools and bring about universal homeschooling, but to break up the monopoly of government education.

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