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[quote=Anonymous]Just from my own personal experience growing up and now as a parent....

I've known parents who homeschool because their kids have needs that were not being met at a traditional school. Usually their kid is extremely intelligent or has some special needs.   Or they homeschool because their jobs require travel, and they see the benefit of exposing their kids to different states/countries, and home schooling is easier.  These parents don't really talk about homeschooling.  It comes up at some point, but it's not really a focus of conversations.

I've also met people who home school for religious reasons or because they think public schools are terrible and their kid could never get a quality education.  These parents tend to make the homeschooling topic, or their beliefs for why they homeschool, a center of a lot of conversations.

So the stigma exists because, again in my experience, the outspoken ones carry the negative stereotype so that's what people associate home schooling with. [/quote]

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