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Liberals may be scratching their heads over the latest homeschooling numbers -- but after two terms of President Obama, we can understand the surge! The number of children educated at home have doubled since 1999 according to a new government report. (And given the distrust of answering government questionnaires I would venture to say the percentages are probably even higher.) 

"The share of parents who said their most important reason [for homeschooling] was concern about the environment at other schools, such as safety, drugs, and peer pressure, rose from 21 percent to 25 percent," the Washington Post explains.

Four years into this administration, it's no wonder that more families are pulling their kids out of the sex-saturated moral void of the public schools. 

Maybe if the Obama Department of Education weren't so hostile toward traditional values in their aggressive push of their agenda, it wouldn't be driving so many children out of the public classroom. 

Instead, families are running for the exits after the president's team put its agenda of sexual anarchy ahead of kids' safety and learning experience. 

As Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (R) predicted back in the spring when the president ordered the gender free-for-all in schools and universities, "This will be the end of public education, if this prevails. People will pull their kids out, homeschooling will explode, and private schools will increase."

So far, that seems to be the trend, as Americans erupt in frustration over the president's school mandate. 

There are at least 13 lawsuits over the edict spanning Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and Nebraska. 

And that doesn't include the multi-state suit by state leaders! 

Fortunately, the Supreme Court seems to grasp the gravity of the situation, agreeing last week to take up the case of Virginia's Gloucester County School Board. "Girls should never be forced to undress in the presence of young men," said one of the mothers in Palatine, Illinois, where parents are also taking the Obama administration to court. 

"There are sensitive solutions for students that don't violate the privacy of many other students at the school. Schools will always have a duty to protect the privacy and preserve the dignity of all children, because every child matters. We hope the [Supreme] Court remembers this." (For tips on how you can keep your kids safe, download FRC's Parent's Guide to the Transgender Movement in Education.)

Like so many issues, the presidential election is going to have a major impact -- not just on this genderless bathroom debate, but on the Supreme Court that decides it. Do you know what kind of justices your candidate would nominate? Find out in FRC Action's presidential voter guide. Also, check out our new ad on the importance of SCOTUS in this blockbuster video.

Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC Action senior writers.