ABSTRACT
In modern times, the concept of teaching children at home may seem to be a strange practice employed by an eccentric few. In reality, it is the concept of modern public schooling that is new. Most of the nation's founding fathers, including George Washington and James Madison, were tutored at home. In the past few decades, home schooling has seen a revival, and recent estimates put the number of home-schooled children in kindergarten through twelfth grade at 1.725 to 2.185 million, with a growth rate of 7–15 percent per year. Parents' motivations for home schooling their children vary widely and include both conservative and liberal ideologies. Although the US Supreme Court has yet to address a parent's right to home school, it has held that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
