Much has changed for home schooling in recent years, including the profile of those taking this interesting way. Early on, Christian families would use this as a common route towards their family's education. In recent years Jews and Muslims also have entered the ways of home schooling for much the same reasons as the Christians Right. One educator has suggested that there is more than a religious component. "While the religious component clearly endures, many in the newest wave of home educators are motivated by secular

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goals"(Klicka 108). Beyond this "A 1996 survey conducted by the Florida Department conducted by the Florida Department of Education revealed that sixty-one percent of parent educators ranked this type of dissatisfaction as their primary reason for home schooling, surpassing religious reasons, which claimed twenty-one percent for the second straight year"(109).

"When the first town schools were established in the New England colonies around 1650 attendance was voluntary, designed to help parents meet compulsory education laws"(Bell 23). The first state law mandating attendance was born in Massachusetts in 1852 as an effort to forge a common culture and value system. By 1920, nearly every state had adopted similar laws, even though vocal groups decried them. The protestors included the Roman Catholic Church, which had already begun fighting for the right to establish its own institutions to spread

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