How many homeschoolers are there in Canada?
There is no way to know how many homelearning children there are in the many provinces in which there is no legally required registration. While ministries of education may or may not have statistics on the number of students who have been withdrawn from the public school system in order to home school, they cannot know how many homeschooled children there are who have never attended school nor been registered in any other way. Families have no reason to volunteer that information when not required to submit it by law, and in homeschool-unfriendly, repressive climates, may have good reason to keep a low profile. Alberta has a legal requirement for registration and therefore some official statistics, which can be found in its Home Education Information Package (http://education.gov.ab.ca/educationsystem/HomeEdInfo.pdf). On the last page of the info package is a chart of numbers broken down by whether the home education is provided entirely by the parents, or includes part-time attendanc
by Marian Buchanan There is no way to know how many homelearning children there are in the many provinces in which there is no legally required registration. While ministries of education may or may not have statistics on the number of students who have been withdrawn from the public school system in order to home school, they cannot know how many homeschooled children there are who have never attended school nor been registered in any other way. Families have no reason to volunteer that information when not required to submit it by law, and in homeschool-unfriendly, repressive climates, may have good reason to keep a low profile. Alberta has a legal requirement for registration and therefore some official statistics, which can be found in its Home Education Information Package (http://education.gov.ab.ca/educationsystem/HomeEdInfo.pdf). On the last page of the info package is a chart of numbers broken down by whether the home education is provided entirely by the parents, or includes
