The Truth Is Out. We Don’t Need The Public School System.
A Gallup poll released last week finds that 1 in 10 families with school aged children are now homeschooling. That means the number of homeschoolers in America has doubled in just one year. Granted, a portion of these families may return to the public school ranks once the lockdowns and mask policies end (if they do end any time this century) but there is reason to think that, as The Atlantic says, the change may be lasting.
After all, these are families who have unenrolled and severed ties from the school system completely. And in some parts of the country, the number of parents who have taken that step is even more staggering. Texas, for example, has seen a 400 percent increase in parents withdrawing from the public school system, which mirrors pretty closely the reported 300 percent increase in traffic to homeschool.com, an online community for homeschoolers.
The trend towards homeschooling has been given a significant shot of adrenaline recently, but it didn’t begin with the pandemic. Over the last two decades, the size of the homeschooling community had already doubled even before the lockdowns began. What was once considered a fringe movement for Christian fundamentalists on one side of the political divide and hippy granola-crunchers on the other, has been increasingly embraced as a possibility for people of all ideological persuasions.
What makes this moment so significant is that the lockdowns have broken the final barrier that prevented many parents from exploring the homeschooling route. That barrier was psychological more than anything. It was the belief that public schools do something special that the average parent cannot emulate or improve upon. It was thought, even by people who are otherwise skeptical of government control, that parents teaching their own kids is somehow disordered or weird or backwards. We need the school system, it was thought. Education is the system’s thing, its speciality. Parents do not have the ability or resources to take its place.
That was always a facade.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-truth-is-out-we-dont-need-the-public-school-system
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This will change the school system. If democrats are in office, expect school choice to go with charter, private and pushing down on homeschooling with much tighter regulations. We have a fight ahead of us!
This is also concerning about the private schools....makes one wonder if this was coordinated....
Biden wants to get rid of charters, you can bet on private schools too. There narrative of helping the weakest among us no longer flies in the face of school closures and keeping schools closed.
