Home schooling Draws More Blacks: Parents frustrated by Maryland schools find appeal in ability to incorporate culture, religion with academics

Baltimore Sun reporter, Rona Marech interviews Prince George County homeschoolers to find out more about the growing trend of homeschooling in the African-American community:

Black home-schooling families say they are seeing their numbers increase noticeably in Baltimore, Washington and surrounding suburbs, areas with large black populations and, in some cases, notoriously underperforming schools.

"The face of home schooling has really changed over the years. It's not just Christian fundamentalists and Hollywood kids. Anyone can do it," said Misty Muhammad, a mother of three from Baltimore County who recently started a home-schooling support group with five other black families. "People realize they have options and they can do a better job."

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