According to Stephen Duncombe in his introduction to The Cultural Resistance Reader, cultural resistance is "A 'refuge in a world without heat', an escape from the world of politics and trouble." (123). The increasing privatization of public space was a major form of cultural resistance in 1998. Looking at other forms of cultural resistance I noticed homeschooling and the resistance it generates. In the early 1980s homeschooling increased in America due to speculation that public schools taught an unconventional ethic. Since this period there has been an increase in the number of children being homeschooled. In 2007, 2.9 percent, or approximately 1.5 million school-age children, were home-schooled, an increase from previous years. But why this sudden increase when public and private schools have existed for so long? As I delved deeper into the issue, I saw that parents felt that with homeschooling they had more freedom, family time, and less worry about what their children were learning since they are the ones teaching them. After examining each of these arguments praising homeschooling, I realized that these were not aspects that benefit children and their futures. Homeschooling is a form of cultural resistance because it escapes reality by having each family decide their own curriculum and isolating them from social interaction, but because it does not generate broader change in the education system, it is ineffective. Although the reason why some families choose to home school is because they want a stronger and more personal education for their children, it has been seen that some children simply drop out of school and say they are homeschooling, when in reality they are not. they are studying nothing as traditional education is not required in the Un...... center of paper ......rks CitedDuncombe, Stephen. "Reader's Introduction to Cultural Resistance." Critical encounters with texts: Finding a place to stand. By Margaret Himley and Anne Fitzsimmons. New York: Custom Pub., 2009. 117-23. Print.Duncan, Arne. “The Complete Curriculum: Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan at the National Arts Education Partnership Forum.” US Department of Education. 9 April 2010. Web. 07 December 2010. .Scaccia, Jesse. "The Case Against Homeschooling | Teacher, Revised." Teacher, Reviewed | Real talk from real teachers. 30 May 2009. Web. 07 December 2010. .Sowell, Thomas. "Deferring reality." Capitalism magazine. 21 February 2006. Web. 07 December. 2010. .