AN INTERESTING STAT
I find this one hard to believe:
The greatest change from 2003 was an 11 point increase in the desire to provide religious and moral instruction which went from 72% in 2003 to 83% in 2007.
Homeschoolers have become more religious over the last 4 years? That just doesn’t feel right.
8 Responses to “AN INTERESTING STAT”
Comment by speedwell January 6th, 2009 at 10:56 pm |
It’s a hard question to answer. I would have answered that I want to teach my children my moral standards rather than the school’s, even though I’m not a bit religious. |
Comment by Alasandra January 7th, 2009 at 7:15 am |
I wonder how they came up with that stat. Many times polls are worded in such a way as to make one answer the favored one. One of the things we learned in marketing was how to create a poll to get the answer we wanted. While not everyone will pick the desired answer the majority of people do. It was actually a very interesting study. |
Comment by COD January 7th, 2009 at 10:09 am |
Here is the actual survey report if anybody wants to figure out how HSLDA is massaging the numbers to get the press release they want. |
Comment by JJ Ross January 7th, 2009 at 10:17 am |
Hmmm, but religion among all Americans ticked up after the 9-11 attacks, so it would be a thinking error to imagine it has anything to do with “homeschoolers” as some distinct group:
Probably as wars go on and now with the global economic meltdown, religion as refuge continues to appeal? Also world historian Jacques Barzun in his 500-year tome, From Dawn to Decadence, demonstrated that’s it’s a macro cycle, not any sort of permanent trend that means anything. He saw “primitive religion” cycles up and down every generation or so, with or without catastrophically frightening events as causal. |
Comment by Daryl Cobranchi January 7th, 2009 at 10:21 am |
“In the 2003 and 2007 NHES, parents were asked whether |
Comment by COD January 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am |
“Religious or moral” How do you homeschool without providing moral instruction? |
Comment by Rob January 7th, 2009 at 6:16 pm |
I have no clue who is joining the club in greater numbers. I personally haven’t converted anyone to the cause of homeschooling, secular or religious. The standard reaction I get from both church folk and godless co-workers alike, is a wistful sad look and mumbling something about how they could never homeschool because they’d be bad at it. |
Comment by JJ Ross January 8th, 2009 at 10:42 am |
Another interesting stat – two percent. According to Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren, two percent (the usual estimate of home educated, btw) is a threatening minority we mustn’t allow to change America, so its civil rights must be legislated away by the godly majority, to keep the culture normal and healthy and moral . . . |