Suspect as you please, but there is no obvious reason for the surveyed parents to lie, and consistently the majority do not list religion as a motivator, the #1 reason cited is they think they educate better at home, 48.9%, versus 38.4% citing religious reasons as #2, and 'poor learning environment at #3 at 25.6%. Considering the survey was 'check all those that apply' it's not like people with religious reasons had to skip that to answer a different one. Only a little over a third cite religious reasons as being any factor in their decision. It certainly wasn't religion or propaganda that was the reason for me and my sister being homeschooled, our mother was an agnostic liberal at the time, who'd attended catholic schools herself, and I was an avowed atheist. If you want to review the survey, it's on the wikepedia page for homeschool.



All certainly true, but you are still assuming religion is the major reason for homeshooling, it is not.




Agreed



Little bit of an 'if-by-whiskey' argument there. Again, most don't do it for religious reasons, there's nothing fundamentally wrong about doing it for religious reasons, and religious reasons or not, from the 'standpoint of the future of American education' I wonder why you find it objectionable that their is an educational process out there that consistently produces students who perform vastly superior to pub-ed on the standardized test, especially since they, unlike pub ed, aren't being taught specifically to pass those tests. Normally this is considered a good thing.