and up takingcommunity college classese high school years, survey done on homeschoolers by doctor peter gray who is a psychology professor and on schooling advocate in my book, he and his colleagues discovered that homeschoolers did spend time during the high school years taking community college classes in getting a degree at the same age that their peers would get a high school diploma and then being able to enroll in a four-year university transfer and save quite a bit of money it's really practical approach particularly now with skyrocketing tuition rates at universities. >> it seems that the homeschool in the unschooled movement have grown exponentially in the last 20 years is that saying something about public education? >> it has grown tremendously over the past couple of decades, the first year the u.s. department of education begin tracking homeschoolers was 1998 at the time they counted 850,000 that number to 2 million, just under 2 million in 2016 and over the past year when the school shutdown since up again underpinned them a week in a march 2020 we seen a tripling of the homesc