Harris Poll: One-third of U.S. Adults Know Someone Who Homeschools Their Child

One-third of U.S. Adults Know Someone Who Homeschools Their Child

  Two-thirds of adults cite dissatisfaction with academic instruction as a
main reason why they think parents in general or they themselves homeschool
                              their children

   ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The passage of the No Child
Left Behind Act has focused attention not only on public education in the
United States, but on alternatives to public education as well. One such
alternative is homeschooling, a growing trend in recent years(1). One-third
(34%) of U.S. adults know someone who currently homeschools their child.
Among those households with children who are old enough to have attended
school, eight percent report that their child has been homeschooled at some
point in their education.
   These are the results of a nationwide Harris Poll of 2,435 U.S. adults
surveyed online by Harris Interactive(R) between March 8 and 14, 2006.
   Reasons for homeschooling

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