{"id":52001,"date":"2015-06-18T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T04:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52001"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:57:57","slug":"more-canadian-parents-opting-for-home-schooling-fraser-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/18\/more-canadian-parents-opting-for-home-schooling-fraser-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"More Canadian parents opting for home-schooling: Fraser Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52126\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_90689089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52126\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_90689089.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_90689089.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shutterstock_90689089-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; A growing number of Canadian families are choosing to home-school their children, according to a new study from the Fraser Institute.<\/p>\n<p>It says 21,662 Canadian children were registered as home-school students in 2012, an increase of 29 per cent over a five-year period, but acknowledges there are more homes-school kids not officially registered.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy diflucan online <a href=\"https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/diflucan.html\">https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/diflucan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The study released today suggests that while decisions to home-school in the past were driven by ideology or religion, families are now choosing the option for more pragmatic reasons.<\/p>\n<p>For example, home-schooling corresponds with personal circumstances such as having children in time-consuming extra-curricular activities, a child with a health or learning disability or because the family lives in a remote location or travels extensively.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vidalista online <a href=\"https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/vidalista.html\">https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/vidalista.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The study notes policymakers are paying attention to the jump in numbers, with at least five provinces having updated or expanded homeschooling regulations since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>All provinces require home-school parents to register or notify the authorities of their home schooling. Three provinces &#8212; Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec &#8212; require submission of a formal educational plan and evidence of student progress.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy nolvadex online <a href=\"https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/nolvadex.html\">https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/nolvadex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Fraser Institute says research in both Canada and the United States has consistently found that home-schooled students score in the higher percentiles compared to kids public schools on standardized tests in reading, writing and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents are increasingly looking for more choice in how their children are educated and home schooling is proving to be a viable choice,\u201d said Deani Van Pelt, study author and director of the Fraser Institute&#8217;s Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese figures point to a growing number of Canadians who, for a variety of reasons, feel that their child&#8217;s interests are best served by an education program that occurs largely outside of a traditional institutional setting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; A growing number of Canadian families are choosing to home-school their children, according to a new study from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":52126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,604,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-education","category-lifestyle","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282423,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52001\/revisions\/282423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}