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Every year when the school year begins, an increasing number of students do not head off to a classroom. Their parents are their primary teachers- in the United States, between 1.5 and 1.9 million children are homeschooled. People choose homeschooling rather than public schooling, because the have concerns about the enviroment of regular schools, such as drugs, lack of safety and negative peer pressure. "There's potential for massive growth," said Ian Slatter, spokesman for the National Center for Home Education, which promotes homeschooling and tracks laws that govern it. "Homeschooling is just getting started," he said. "We've gotten through the barriers of questioning the academic ability of home schools, not that we have a sizable number of graduates who are not socially isolated or awkward- they are good, high-quality citizens. We're getting that mainstream recognition and challenging the way education has been done." Homeschooling provides a very beneficial method of learning, because it eliminates student learning boundaries, and assures a friendly, stress-free learning enviroment for kids.