This episode of the Kings Hall is brought to you by backwards planning financial, maxD trailers, keep wise partners, muzzleloaders.com, truth family Bible church, farmer bills provisions, founders ministries, right response ministries, and our supporters at patreon.com. Thank you. Thank you. It wasn't long ago that the idea of homeing your children was more or less a fringe idea.

Just think of the stereotypes of homeschooled children typically bandied about in popular culture.

That homeschoolers are the socially awkward offspring of religious fanatics,

unable to talk to girls, or navigate the most basic

of social settings. They probably only watch productions from Focus on the Family and almost

definitely ritually burn Harry Potter books each October, but only in celebration of Reformation

Day, of course, not Halloween.

But in recent years, our culture has undergone a seismic shift in attitude and perception surrounding public education, homeschooling, and even private schooling.

A growing number of families are choosing to opt out of the public school system,

seeking alternative educational pathways ranging from homeschooling to cottage schooling, to co-ops, and classical

Christian private schooling, and beyond. Take just homeschooling, for example, which has seen a remarkable

surge of late. As of the 2024 school year, approximately 3.7 million

students in the United States are being homeschooled, accounting for about 6.73% of all school-aged

children. This represents a significant increase from just the 2018 to 2019 school year when just 3.7%

of students received academic instruction at home.

In the year 2000, only 2.2% of school-aged children were homeschooled.

The trend is marked, isn't it?

Running parallel to this trend is the growth of classical Christian schools in America.

These institutions offer a more

traditional liberal arts education grounded in Christian values. The number of such schools has expanded

markedly as well, with over 1,500 now operating across the country. Notably, more than 250 of

these have opened since 2020, reflecting a robust demand for this new, or should we say old, educational model.

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