WND – Edward B. Driscoll, Jr. 
Homeschooling reached a remarkable milestone in North Carolina during the 2014-15 school year. With enrollment topping 100,000 students, the Tar Heel State now has more homeschoolers than students in private school. The trend isn’t limited to North Carolina, either. A recent Florida study pegged homeschooling growth there at nearly 10 percent, and the National Home Education Research Institute estimates it at 2 percent to 8 percent a year nationally. “It’s no longer a fringe movement; homeschooling is mainstream,” said Terry Stoops of the North Carolina-based John Locke Foundation. The reasons for this trend toward homeschooling abound…Here are eight of them…(more)