Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That: New at Reason

According to a range of research, government-run schools are academically inferior to homeschooling, riddled with crime and abuse, and producing graduates less tolerant than their counterparts who were educated at home. But rather than fix their pet institutions, writes J.D. Tuccille, politicians prefer to grab for power over people fleeing from their grasp.

Meanwhile, homeschooling in the U.S. is booming, as a growing numbers of families with diverse backgrounds, philosophies, and approaches abandon public schools in favor of taking responsibility for their own children’s education.

Unsurprisingly, writes Tuccille, as the numbers of homeschooled kids grow, their ranks expand beyond the niche populations—religious families, in particular—that originally rejected public schools.

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