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 Homeschooled
Adults Are Better Citizens
by James W. Harris, the Liberator Online at
www.TheAdvocates.org
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"Politics and
government are too complicated to understand."
Amazingly, more than *one out of three* adult Americans who were
educated in government schools answered "Yes" to that question
on a recent survey.
However, only 4% of adults who had been homeschooled answered
"Yes."
That's just one of the remarkable findings of a newly-published
survey of over 7,000 adults, conducted by the National Home
Education Research Institute.
Homeschooled children have already shown impressive academic
achievements when compared to their government-schooled
counterparts.
However, critics of homeschooling have sometimes charged that
homeschooling could produce children who were not properly
"socialized" and were so alienated from mainstream society that
they would not, or could not, take part in community and
political affairs.
This new survey -- the largest of its kind ever conducted --
blows that theory out of the water. It found that adults who
were homeschooled are far more active in political, community
and charitable matters than the general population.
Among the findings:
* 14% of homeschooled adults ages 18-24 have worked for a
candidate, party, or cause -- compared to 1% of their age group
in the general population.
* 76% of homeschooled adults (ages 18-24) have voted in the last
five years, compared to 29% of government-schooled adults of the
same age.
* 95% of homeschooled adults (ages 25-39) voted in the last five
years, compared to 40% of that age group in the general
population.
* 71% take part in community service (e.g., coaching a sports
team, volunteering at a school, or working with a church or
neighborhood association) compared to 37% of the general
population.
* Homeschoolers went on to achieve on average a higher level of
college education than their government-schooled peers.
More, the homeschooled adults surveyed overwhelmingly said they
were happy and pleased with the experience, and a majority would
homeschool their own children.
Source: National Home Education Research Institute study:
http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/default.asp
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