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>According to the State of VA, homeschooling has
increased just over 18% from
>the 2001-2002 school year through the 2005-2006
school year.
So what? Rates of increase are fairly meaningless
when one is talking about fewer than 2 percent of
children participating. There are just over 20,000
homeschooled kids in Virginia out of a total student
population of 1,221,939, so homeschooling represents
a fringe population at best.
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Dr. David S. Hardin
Assistant Professor of Geography
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Longwood University
Farmville, Virginia 23909
Phone: (434) 395-2581
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certaine habitation."
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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 07:00:09 EDT
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Subject: Re: VA homeschooling
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>According to the State of VA, homeschooling has
increased just over 18% from
>the 2001-2002 school year through the 2005-2006
school year.
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>J South
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