GOOD NEWS
Never thought I’d say this, but HSLDA deserves kudos here:
“We’re seeing an increase in the number of families that might cite moral and religious instruction as one factor but not the overriding one,” says Ian Slatter, spokesman for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, a Christian-led advocacy group. The association estimates that evangelicals account for just over half of home-schooling households today, down from about two thirds in 2000.
In one sign of that growing diversification, membership in the Homeschool Legal Defense Association has grown by 42 percent in the last decade, to about 85,000, while the number of home-schooling families has grown at a much faster rate.
6 Responses to “GOOD NEWS”
 Comment by Nance Confer January 9th, 2009 at 8:23 pm |
A generous interpretation of a statistic? Hmmm… this Obama guy is gooood. 🙂 Nance |
 Comment by speedwell January 9th, 2009 at 11:56 pm |
They deserve kudos for what? Becoming increasingly irrelevant? The article obviously states that the rate of growth of homeschooling is much faster than the rate of growth of the membership of the organization that supposedly represents homeschoolers. |
 Comment by Daryl January 10th, 2009 at 7:29 am |
The NCES study didn’t ask about religious affiliation. HSLDA could have spun the “morals” homeschoolers as “evangelicals” and no one could have gainsaid them. They chose not to. And them becoming increasingly irrelevant is not too shabby, either. 🙂 |
 Comment by JJ Ross January 10th, 2009 at 8:26 am |
Maybe they are just being politic, calculating that a change of storyline (toward Obama-like diversity rather than Cheney’s ruthless single-mindedness) would serve their own better in the next administration? |
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Comment by JJ Ross January 10th, 2009 at 9:16 am |
Daryl, you posted it yourself:
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Comment by Nance Confer January 10th, 2009 at 9:57 am |
I’m fine with a change in the story line to a more inclusive one. It still includes HSLDA and that’s what inclusive means. Apparently. 🙂 And I just saw a HSLDA rep on C-Span. I only caught the last 5 minutes but he was just a homeschooler, not a fire-breathing evangelical. How refreshing. Nance |