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About 2 percent of American students are now taught at home.Educators are confused adout how this
growing practice should be regulated,and also wonder whether children who are fully registered in
school should get some public services. The issue shows how dim the line between public and private
education can become,even when that private education is delivered at home.
Probably about half the parents who teach at home are religiously motivated and use lessons by mail
(or Internet) from church schools.Perhaps an additional fourth have some doubts about public
education , think schools are unsafe of the fact that their children have special need that regular school
don't meet,In some cases , parents home-school to escape compulsory education; they do least teaching
while having older children care for younger sisters or brothers or work in home bussiness.Althought,
children often learn well at home weak regulations in most states mean that officials rarely challenge
or monitor parents who say they are home-schooling.With glowing frequency,however, public schools
offer services to the home-schooled .Districts may permit them to enroll part time for instance;educaters
fear that otherwise these children could later return full time with serious academic weakness,and in any
case some districts wanting to qualify for state aid can benefit from par-times filling empty seats. |
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