Is homeschooling a threat to public schools?
The real threat comes from a political push for vouchers By: Philip Moscovitch More Canadian parents than ever are choosing to homeschool. While they may feel they are making the best choice for their children, are they helping to kill public education in this country? Elizabeth Davis of the Homeschooling Legal Defence Association of Canada, says there are “at least 100,000” homeschooled kids in Canada. The group estimates that Ontario has 30,000, BC 12,000 and Quebec 10,000. The Alberta government puts the number in that province at just over 8,000 for 1999-2000. While homeschooling has become rather mainstream, just ten years ago its image was bibles and granola Author Wendy Priesnitz, founder of the Canadian Alliance of Home Schoolers, believes the rise in homeschooling is driven by “parental dissatisfaction with public schools – violence, funding and service cuts and so on – and increasing access to Internet sources of information.” She estimates the number of homeschooling familie
