If we're lucky, they merely grow passive during their captivity. The cruel dichotomy of diploma vs. dropout has estranged countless millions of our youth. There's a blessed new choice on the scene. In my role as a homeschool activist, my phone rings all day long. I'm witnessing an incoming tide of teens and their parents who are turning with hope and relief to homeschooling.
Teens are the fastest growing segment of the nation's fastest growing educational movement.
Significantly, in the majority of these cases, it is the teen who initiates the discussion by asking mom and dad to please consider homeschooling. Because homeschooling exists, and because it's gaining stature as a valid educational choice, teens and their parents are sitting down together, communicating, and solving problems in ways that would have been unlikely even a decade ago. Working together, families at all income levels are finding creative new ways for their young person to continue on a learning course, adapting to his or her needs in a way no institutional school, public or private, can. Take Ben for example. He's a 15 year old charmer without a scholar's bone in his body.