Mairead Elordi – The Daily Wire Nov 1, 2023
Homeschooling has become America’s fastest-growing form of education and continues to explode in popularity long after pandemic-era remote learning has ended, a new Washington Post analysis shows.The dramatic rise in homeschooling that began during the pandemic continued through the school year that ended this past spring, according to the Post’s analysis, which looked at data from nearly 7,000 school districts across the country.
Homeschooling’s continued popularity flies in the face of predictions that most families would go back to in-person classes at schools once controversial pandemic restrictions like mask mandates ended. Another concern parents had after the pandemic is learning loss in public schools, which may also be driving some families to homeschool.
“Home schooling’s surging popularity crosses every measurable line of politics, geography and demographics,” the Post’s analysis stated.
The analysis looked at data from 32 states and the District of Columbia, which represent more than 60% of school-age children. The data is incomplete because some states do not have reliable tallies of homeschoolers, and 11 states, including Texas, Michigan, Connecticut, and Illinois, do not require families to notify the state when they decide to homeschool.
Nevertheless, the numbers that are available indicate that homeschooling has become a “mainstay of the American educational system,” the Post said.
Before the pandemic, there were 1.5 million homeschoolers in the U.S., according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Now, there are between 1.9 million and 2.7 million homeschoolers in the country, the Post’s analysis estimated.
Only two states, Georgia and Maryland, have seen homeschooling return to pre-pandemic levels.
With more than 154,000 homeschoolers, Florida has the largest homeschool population among the states with available data.
However, the state with the fastest growth is blue New York, where the homeschool population has more than doubled since 2017 to almost 52,000 kids. Perhaps surprisingly, the trend is moving fastest in deep blue New York City, according to the analysis.
In 24 of New York City’s 33 school districts, the number of homeschooled children rose by at least 200% over six years. Brooklyn and the Bronx saw the highest growth rate — some of those boroughs’ districts saw more than 300% growth.
Homeschooling’s popularity is also not confined to poorly performing public school districts, the analysis found.
Last fall, more than 60,000 students were homeschooled in districts that rank in the top fifth for academic achievement in the country.
Despite homeschoolers often outperforming their public school peers, critics continue to push for more government oversight.
“Many of America’s new home-schooled children have entered a world where no government official will ever check on what, or how well, they are being taught,” the Post noted.
here in the UK umpteen petitions have gone to number 10 to stop transvestites going into schools and creches and teaching of ” the joys of homosexuality”
whole classes of brain washed children are leaving school thinking they are in the wrong body and signing up for sex change surgeries, many now are lesbian or homosexual deviants
It is know that homosexuality often goes with deeper character disorders
god love our children please
While I personally don’t understand why sheeple continue to have lambs, those lambs which enter this dystopian world, should not be educated in any official system.
This does however leave these lambs at the mercy of their brainwashed thicko parents, and I’d say many are religious fundamentalists and, or are freaky greens.
Baked or half baked, its a mess.
Face it. Most children would be far better of to be left totally unschooled than to be brainwashed at the government sheeple factory because there is a good chance that absent their minds being destroyed by Jewish PC nonsense, they would actually pick up useful skills and a good bit of knowledge over the years.
carl jones is a twat
thats fact
But no one should allow their children to be indoctrinated by transsexuals perverts
so many kids are now damaged for life
this is behind the high number of suicides
please ban that idiot carl jones
Thank you carl jones.
Why people in bondage have children is beyond me.
You noticed the “nationalists” want people having more children.
IF you do not you are “selfish.
What if it is NOT selfishness but the fact that any child one has is
BORN INTO INDENTURED SERVITUDE.
IF you have a child outside of the hospital THE AUTHORITIES WILL HUNT YOU DOWN
“for the good of the baby” because they need to put a number on the baby and make certain it is
injected with the poisons they call vaccines.
You WILL NOT be left in peace because the state OWNS your child.
“Wellness Visits” will be mandated with a “primary care physician”
(drug and vaxx pusher) “for the good of the child”.
IF you are lucky your child will make it to 18 without serious iatrogenic illness or death..
and if you are super blessed (or home school) your child will not suffer from mental illness indoctrinated into the youth through school and “culture”. (“culture” is not organic but a top down marketing platform)
But even if they make it to 18, they will spend the rest of their lives having to prostitute their time for money
so that the wealthy can profit by their labor.