The Choice Channel

“Government-owned and operated schools not only exist in all developed and developing nations, but are predominant. Only in the Netherlands do a majority of both elementary and secondary students attend nongovernmental schools. This creates enormous inertia and vested interests to maintain the system. In general terms, challengers of government-dominated education are found in two broad categories: those who would modify or create alternatives to the system, and those who would abolish or avoid it. The most obvious example of the latter is the homeschooling movement of the past two decades, which has grown from an estimated 10-15,000 students in 1980 to 1,500,000 or more today.” (02/16/06)