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Homeschooling as a phenomenon came under attack during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The rise of urbanization and industrialization seemed for a while to spell the death knell of homeschooling.

Public schooling became in vogue and parents and students migrated in their millions to large public educational institutions. This was supported, in no small degree, by government legislation.

But, the scene is changing again. The bastions and bulwarks of Homeschool Castle had taken a battering, but it held together. Today homeschooling is vibrantly alive and growing in leaps and bounds.

The guardians and keepers of Homeschool Castle must, however, remain vigilant. The enemy has not given up and is still looking for every possible opportunity to set up its battering rams against the walls of the Castle. It is for this very reason that Homeschool Castle has equipped itself with an ultra modern early warning system. Radar beams continually scan the education horizon to pick up signs of attack and invasion.

One of the amazing characteristics of Homeschool Castle is that it has managed to retain its hold on the essentials of homeschool education and to blend it seamlessly with life in the 21st century.

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Am I still free to homeschool? Is Home Schooling a Crime? Should homeschooling be made illegal?

Important Religious Liberty Action

Nick, an honors graduate from Columbia University's law school, is a nationally respected religious liberty attorney who has practiced before the U.S. Supreme Court and now directs the international religious liberty center at Andrews University.

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"Successful homeschooling makes non-homeschoolers uncomfortable!"
Home-schoolers threaten our cultural comfort

Sonny Scott a community columnist, lives on Sparta Road in Chickasaw County and his e-mail address is sonnyscott@yahoo.com.

Appeared originally in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 6/8/2008, - Used with Permission

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Dissatisfied with the performance of government-run schools, more and more American families have begun teaching their children at home.

There are two historical strains of homeschooling, a religious-right thread inspired by author Raymond Moore and a countercultural-left thread inspired by John Holt. Their differences illustrate the various concerns that cause people to choose homeschooling: some want religious values in education, some worry about the crime and lack of discipline in the government schools, some object to the conformity and bureaucracy in the schools, others are concerned with the declining quality of education, and still others just feelthat children are best educated by their parents.

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Author,Isabel Lyman, is codirector of Harkness Road High School in Amherst, Massachusetts, and a long-time homeschooling parent. This article was first published by the Cato Institute and is used with permission (July, 2008)

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Some Homeschooling Home-What you need to know

by Rebecca Walker

Homeschooling has come a long way from relative obscurity two decades ago. It is now a leading education trend in America as well as around the world. Estimates put the growth in the sector to about 15 percent per year. This has not stopped the spread of myths about homeschooling among many people; ....

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