As Bob Wilson, the chairman, points out, it keeps young people off the local crime- and drug-ridden streets.
ECONOMIST: Working men's clubs
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In a 2007 survey by the Department of Education, 88% of home-schooling parents said that their local public schools were unsafe, drug-ridden or unwholesome in some way.
ECONOMIST: The growth of home-schooling
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Back then most dope was still purchased in open-air markets--Central Park, for example--until the mid-1990s, when former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani rid the streets of drug dealers, which started gentrifying many crime-ridden New York neighborhoods.