BOOK REVIEWS 475 CATHOLIC EDUCATION: HOMEWARD BOUND

AS the title Catholic Education: Homeward Bound suggests, this bookexamines home schooling in the context of Catholic education. The authors argue that home schooling in Catholic families is "exploding " due to the perception of parents that they can provide a more thoroughly Catholic education than parochial schools. They attetnpt to support this position through generalizations critical of Catholie schooling that are not grounded in research. For example, Hahn and Hasson write, "Some Catholie schools are shamefully pretending to be something they truly have no intention of being. In fact, it can be dangerous to send our children to Catholic schools that do not accurately represent the Faith—it can subject them to the risk of rejecting a Faith they were never given a real chance to know " (p. 42). At question here is the perception of what constitutes an "accurate representa-tion of the Faith " as well as a defined population when referring to "some Catholic schools. " Hahn and Hasson further assert that "religion classes in Catholic schools may rarely refer to Sacred Set ipture " and substitute "time-bound, current ideologies for timeless Catholie values " in an attempt t