Home schooling's success shakes `extremist' image.(Home Schooling: The Next Test)

From: The Washington Times | Date: December 11, 1996| Author: Innerst, Carol | Copyright information

In some ways, home schooling has come of age.

But some still see home-schoolers as "peculiar" and even a threat to society.

Across the country, the growing ranks of home-schooled children - once considered products of prudish or overly religious parents who didn't want their children to learn about sex or evolution - have evolved into a new breed suddenly being sought by colleges and universities.

"With the obvious decline in public schools, peo...

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