Basham, Patrick. (2001, October 9). Home schooling: From the extreme to the mainstream. Paper copy, and retrieved 10/12/01 online https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/home-schooling-from-the-extreme-to-mainstream-2nd-edition. Canadian home education research homeschool option legal bruce arai. Published by the Fraser Institute, 4th Floor, 1770 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6J 3G7. (“By 1996, the respective provincial ministries of education put the number of home schooled children at 17,523, or 0.4 percent of total student enrolment—a 776 percent increase over just 18 years.10 However, Canada’s home schooling associations claimed a much higher figure—between 30,000 and 40,000, or approximately one percent of total student enrolment. By 1997, the home schooling associations claimed there were approximately 60,000 Canadian home schooled children (Eisler and Dwyer, 1997, p. 64). Today, it is estimated that there are more than 80,000 children being educated in private homes. If accurate, this suggests a doubling of the home schooled population in only a few years … (p. 6)” “Although home schooling is neither desirable nor possible for all families, it has proven itself to be a relatively inexpensive and successful private alternative to public (and costly formal private) education. As such, it merits both the respect of regulators and the further attention of researchers” (p. 16).) (Descriptors: home education, research, opinion, academic achievement, socialization, Canada)