What percentage?
Or just to prevent their children from being infected by "worldly values". You'll often hear them say "Be in the world, but not of the world."
There are of course, people who do it to give their children an education that they feel is superior to the regular one, but they are a minority.
Of course, I didn't survey all homeschoolers to come up with that, I suspect you'd find clusters of secular homeschoolers in certain areas on the west coast, but elsewhere, Jesus dominates.
Personally, my wife and I homeschooled our kids through junior high school, in a mix of Christian cooperatives and homespun curriculum. One kid went to high school at the local Roman Catholic school, the other to a public school.
> There are of course, people who do it to give their children an education that they feel is superior to the regular one
Another way to cut the cake:
- Some want to ensure high quality
- Others want to reduce bad influence
Kids will grow up and rebel, embrace, and take for granted parts of you they inherit.
I’m not Christian, but I’m willing to assume that the reason that Christians like to homeschool is because they care deeply about what kind of person their child becomes; homeschooling is a very conscientious move, like being a Christian. Secular homeschoolers are probably highly conscientious with a different set of norms.