>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. ________________________________ Dr. David S. Hardin Assistant Professor of Geography Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences Longwood University Farmville, Virginia 23909 Phone: (434) 395-2581 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ******************** "For as Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion, so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation." John Smith, 1627 ---- Original message ---- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 07:00:09 EDT From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: VA homeschooling To: [log in to unmask] >According to the State of VA, homeschooling has increased just over 18% from >the 2001-2002 school year through the 2005-2006 school year. > >J South > > > >************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.