Economy drives more parents to homeschool

Brown, the executive director of the Upstate Homeschool Co-op, said a number of new students this year previously attended religious private schools, including Joshua and Deborah Rogers’ 5-year-old son, Austin.

Deborah Rogers said finances were a contributing factor in choosing to homeschool her son, who was enrolled in the early education program at a Greenville church. But with another son who would start preschool this year, Rogers knew expenses would begin to pile up.

It would have cost $400-$450 a month in tuition for the two children, she said, adding: “That’s a lot when we’re a single-income family.” Read more…