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"As home-schooled students reach college age, some … are choosing to continue their educations at home," writes The Washington Post's Milton D. Carrero Galarza. Donald and Michael Staddon are two students whose professors are their teachers. "I know what college did for me," their mother tells the newspaper. "I think they have a better opportunity than college. There are decisions that people make in college that should not be made with the opinion of their peers. I feel like if my children are learning at home, they are going to make those decisions with good counselors." The article doesn't ask the Staddons if they considered Patrick Henry College, the first college designed for home schooled students (and located only 40 miles or so from the Staddons' home in Manassas, Virginia). Elsewhere, the Associated Press notes the rise in home schooling, quoting estimates that between 1.3 million to more than 2 million children are educated exclusively in the home.

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