this is such a booger eating post
1) the common core philosophy was a Bush, no-child-left-behind, concept--- whether you love it or hate it shouldn't depend on that
2) home schooling has been skyrocketing (in percentage terms) for a least a decade. there a lot of reasons-- better online resources being one of them. But it is also filled with people that want to push their children in a direction that they don't think the main-stream schools do (often hard left, and very religious right)
3) but this number is skyrocketing from a small small base. increasing 25% when you started with 4 home-chools students means you added 1. woot!
“Common Core is a big factor that I hear people talk about,” Beth Herbert, founder of Lighthouse Christian Homeschool Association, told NewsObserver.com. “They’re not happy with the work their kids are coming home with. They’ve decided to take their children home.”
in this case it is 100% the "separation of church and state" problem... this group doesn't like the fact that public schools refuse to teach based on their religion.. so they took their ball and went home.