Families are attempting to retain a sense of family and community in an age where an explosion of information overshadows what could be the true nature of education - a love of learning. I recently had the pleasure of talking with Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. about issues shared by homeschooling families. As a learning consultant, author, lecturer and former special education teacher, Dr. Armstrong is well-known for his support of Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Homeschooling provides a unique opportunity for families to learn and grow together. I think homeschooling can be an agent for social change, and it can be the opposite social stasis.
Some people homeschool because they want to keep things just the way things are.
Without making any value judgments, they have a tradition that they pretty much want their child to have. So, they keep their children at home to keep them within that framework - which is not change. That's the old fashioned thing, one generation passing on the same thing to the next generation. That's not putting it down, by any means. That's the way culture has worked for thousands of years, although it's different now because we're in such great time of change.