[Libloather]

Teachers control all of the porn those kids will ever need.

[Nateman]

How dare they resist turning their kids into gay communists who will hate their parents! Don’t they know it takes a village to raise a kid? /s

[dadfly]

lol. parents: as a convenience for us, please make sure your kids don’t learn anything while we’re taking a few days off for more money.

good grief.

[rellic]

Most public elementary schools are just Daycare for two working parent families.

[NFHale]

Re demanded:

Public SERVANTS don’t get to “ demand”.

Emphasis on “servants”.

Homeschooling works. Do it anyway.

[alexander_busek]

Teachers email parents demanding they don’t not homeschool kids

Stupid newswriter never heard of the Subjunctive Mood!

Regards,

[cotton1706]

Parents are SCABS now.

[9YearLurker]

This is the first I’ve heard of a school providing independent study materials to counter a teacher’s strike. Nice.

[Jan_Sobieski]

If sodomites can’t get to your children, they go on strike!

[MayflowerMadam]

“Demanding”. LOL!

[MayflowerMadam]

I hope the email wasn’t written by Randi Weingarten; it’ll be full of errors.

[Apparatchik]

This clearly demonstrates the glaring lack of self-awareness of the Left. Do they even know WHY those parents have chosen homeschooling?

[HIDEK6]

Once they send the kickback to Pelosi, there’s no money left.

[WKUHilltopper]

Demanding?? I’d tell them to get F’ed.

[Political Junkie Too]

In San Francisco, only teachers are qualified to educate your children.

Don't you dare try to teach your own children anything.

-PJ

[Skwor]

FTA
“But teachers claim in messages they sent to parents that the packets were a ploy to ensure the district continues to receive funds during the strike, meaning the district would be able to avoid caving to the union’s demands.”

Pretty sure they just admitted to fraud in that statement.

[coloradan]

Obviously taxes need to be higher in California.

[DFG]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/sf-teachers-union-earning-100k-strike-after-being-unsatisfied-with-10-raises/

[servo1969]

We’re on strike! So, no learing!

[dljordan]

Arrogant SOBs aren’t they.

[Carry_Okie]

Striking San Francisco teachers have demanded parents avoid homeschooling their children to help support their push for higher wages and better conditions avoid exposing their incompetence and destructive brainwashing efforts.

Fixed.

In a way COVID-19 was a blessing, in that it exposed to parents the damage public education is doing to their children.

So I did a little Brave AI search:

According to the U.S. Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), approximately 2.8% to 3.3% of school-aged children were homeschooled in the years prior to 2020. Some estimates, such as those from the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), suggested slightly higher numbers, around 3.7%, but overall, homeschooling remained under 4% of the student population.

Homeschooling in the United States
Overview about homeschooling in the United States
Wikipedia: Pandemic-Era Surge in Homeschooling

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 led to a dramatic spike in homeschooling. As schools shifted to remote learning, many families began to differentiate between remote schooling (school-led online instruction) and true homeschooling (parent-led, independent education). The U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey found that homeschooling rates jumped from 5.4% in spring 2020 to 11.1% by fall 2020—more than doubling in just a few months.

This surge was driven by health concerns, school closures, and dissatisfaction with remote learning quality. Some states, like Massachusetts and New York, saw seven-fold increases, while others, such as South Dakota and California, also experienced sharp rises.

Homeschooling rates during COVID-19 pandemic
Post-Pandemic Trends and Permanent Shift

Contrary to early assumptions that the increase would be temporary, data shows that homeschooling rates have stabilized well above pre-pandemic levels. By the 2022–2023 school year, the rate had settled around 5.2%, and by 2024–2025, it rose slightly to 5.4%, according to the Johns

Hopkins Homeschool Research Lab and NCES.

This represents a net permanent increase of approximately 2.6 percentage points—from a pre-pandemic average of 2.8% to a post-pandemic baseline of 5.4%. In relative terms, this is a nearly 100% increase compared to pre-pandemic levels.

I was hoping it would be more. I'm guessing critical mass at about 20%.