A new report was released today by the Frasier Institute on homeschooling in Canada. It focused on academic performance, socialization, and socio-economic factors. It will come as no surprise to those of us who homescool, that we score high in these areas.

Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream, 2nd edition might just be what we need to help our image... most homeschoolers don't worry about image that much, anyway, but there's a growing pile of garbage in today's popular culture and media that portrays homeschoolers as backward, naive control freaks. Alice, I Think (tv show), Schooled (a book by Gordon Korman), Mean Girls (movie), and a new independant film being shot in Moncton all show homeschoolers (or former homeschoolers) in this light. Frankly, I'm tired of it, but pop culture will always find something good they have to trash (the fact that homeschoolers are predominantly Christian probably makes us more of a target). And I'm guessing that this is one report by the Frasier Institute that won't make mainstream media headlines, so grab it while you can.

Anyway.... rant over. Check out the report.

LINK TO THE NEWS RELEASE:

http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/commerce.web/newsrelease.aspx?nID=4933

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