This article is surprisingly accurate. The resources for home schooling are growing exponentially as well as the amount of "normal" people that are doing it.

We've done it since the beginning, living over an hour away from town when our youngest became school age helped make that decision initially. We belong to a homeschool group of 30 families here that meets one day a week that has about 100 students ages 1-18. They recently split the group so now there are two groups this size and both have waiting lists enough to split each again, but the only problem preventing that growth is finding available space for the new groups to meet in our rural community. The group does a wide array of classes and activities from sports to formal dances to international trips, and an annual shakespeare play, that I was skeptical of initially, but after seeing the play for 2 years I would put it up against any high school play. The entire school is run on a shoestring budget and requires significant work from the parents, primarily the mothers. Students that participate in both the homeschool group and a public school have told me that academically the home school group is much more demanding, even than their dual enrollment college courses. I like it a lot and seeing an article like this is encouraging.

Definitely on the rise. My son was trick or treating last night with another homeschool kid he just met recently.

Over the past few years I have even noticed the responses you get from people when you tell them your kids are homeschooled have gone from "oh (poor kid)" to "oh (interesting tell me more)".

For many homeschoolers, it was a move made out of necessity and not necessarily out of desire. The problem is that public schools have become so bad, but good private schools are way too expensive.