1949 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 9 July 8/5 Catherine's only classmate under the home school program set up by the board of education for handicapped children is Mary Latimer.

1981 N.Y. Times 11 Oct. 66/2 A few parents appear to be thriving on the home-school arrangement. One mother said she ‘learned as much as her children did’.

1984 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 17 Dec. There is a growing home-school movement in this country.

1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 282 The Washington phone and fax lines were jammed with agitated home-school advocates.

2001 Time 27 Aug. 49/3 William Bennett used to be the U.S. Secretary of Education, but today he travels the nation to preach the home-school gospel.

1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 9 Apr. (Midwestern ed.) b23 Many believe their children could score well on college entrance exams... Many parents, in fact, think the novelty of being home-schooled may work in their favor.

1984 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 17/5 I home-schooled the children for six months,..until all three started school in September.

1992 R. H. Limbaugh Way Things ought to Be xxv. 276 Parents are fed up and worried, so much so that many are now home-schooling their kids.

1997 Christian Order Mar. 187 You don't have to be a qualified teacher to homeschool.

2001 J. Franzen Corrections 49 My parents have always been my best friends. They homeschooled me till seventh grade.