RE: census figures

["Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>]

Dale writes:

It would seem logical to rather say "we have no reason to believe that this 
trend *won't* continue" since you agree that it is a "trend".

It would perhaps be most accurate to say that we have no reason to draw any 
conclusion without substantially more evidence.  Your bias and mine just 
about balance each other out, wouldn't you say?

Homeschooling has increased as laws governing it have relaxed and as the 
internet has made support and opportunities more widely available.  There 
are certainly many homeschooling families in Moscow.  But homeschooling 
isn't necessarily forever: the average duration of homeschool is estimated 
at between 2 and 5 years. 
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/SAI/homeschool/homeschoolers.pdf
Some of those kids may go to public school, others to private school.

Any number of factors will influence *when* children are homeschooled--are 
there more first-graders?  junior-high aged? Those reasons have implications 
for public policy decisions, too. In Moscow, we have many dual-enrollment 
students--are they calculated as percentages of a public school student?

Just a voice crying out in the wilderness for more information,

Melynda Huskey

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