Home Schooling
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Once considered a social anomaly and a feature of social isolation, the practice of home schooling emerged as a more or less conventional alternative to participation in universal public education over the course of the last 20 years of the 20th century. An important reason appears to be the growing disenchantment with the quality of public education in primary and secondary schools and the security of students attending such schools: "Increasing enrollment, budget crunches and teacher shortages may have stretched public education beyond its limits" (Hirsch and Samuelson 1). In 1980, most states forbade home schooling; by 2000, all 50 states had authorized some form of it and had mechanisms for monitoring compliance with state educational standards (Lines 64).Home schooling has been linked to social cleavages in America's culture wars, though the profile of home schoolers has changed. In the 1980s, when the concept of
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Approximate Word count = 623
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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