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Home-Schooling: A Better Choice Throughout the past years, there has been a rapid growth of the home-schooling movement. Unfortunately, laws on home-schooling vary from state to state. In some states, home-schoolers can enjoy the freedom of education without any government regulation. Other states, however; may mandate annual testing, teacher certification, etc. (Home School Legal Defense Association). This is a major controversy that first showed up in 1997, when 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon won the National Spelling Bee, showing the startled public that her unorthodox education must be doing something right. “Today, though home schooling accounts for only 3 or 4 percent of America’s school children, the movement’s fifteen percent annual growth rate has become a powerful, hard to ignore indictment of the nation’s academically underachieving, morally irresolute, disorderly, and often scary public schools” (Kennedy 69). Side by side with public educators lackluster results, the richness of home schooling’s achievements embodies a practical ideal of childhood and education. Home-schooling allows students to learn challenging subjects, it forms strong characteristics in the