The results of the 2003 NHES survey reveal that:
1. The estimated homeschooling rate—the percentage of the student population being homeschooled—rose to 2.2 percent in 2003 (from 1.7 percent in 1999).
2. The number of students being homeschooled in the United States was 1,096,000 in the spring of 2003 , a figure which represents a 29 percent increase from the estimated 850,000 students who were being homeschooled in the spring of 1999.
In this latest survey, parents were asked whether any of a set of reasons for homeschooling applied to them. Parents were then asked which one of the applicable reasons they considered to be their most important reason for homeschooling—31 percent of homeschooled children had parents who cited concern about the environment of other schools, such as safety, drugs, or negative peer pressure, as the most important reason for homeschooling and 30 percent had parents who said the most important reason was to provide religious or moral instruction (table 4). While these were the two most common responses, another 16 percent of homeschooled students had parents who said dissatisfaction with the academic instruction available at other schools was their most important reason for homeschooling.
Quoted from the Federal Dept of Education. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/homeschool/
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