Posted on 07/26/2021 12:34:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Although the pandemic disrupted family life across the U.S. since taking hold in spring 2020, some parents are grateful for one consequence: They’re now opting to homeschool their children, even as schools plan to resume in-person classes.
The specific reasons vary widely. Some families who spoke with The Associated Press have children with special educational needs; others seek a faith-based curriculum or say their local schools are flawed. The common denominator: They tried homeschooling on what they thought was a temporary basis and found it beneficial to their children.
“That’s one of the silver linings of the pandemic — I don’t think we would have chosen to homeschool otherwise,” said Danielle King of Randolph, Vermont, whose 7-year-old daughter Zoë thrived with the flexible, one-on-one instruction. Her curriculum has included literature, anatomy, even archaeology, enlivened by outdoor excursions to search for fossils.
The surge has been confirmed by the U.S. Census Bureau, which reported in March that the rate of households homeschooling their children rose to 11% by September 2020, more than doubling from 5.4% just six months earlier.
Black households saw the largest jump; their homeschooling rate rose from 3.3% in the spring of 2020 to 16.1% in the fall. …
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This is the most hopeful and encouraging piece of news in all this.
Note to taxpayers: Wonder how many ghost students school districts have on their books...
States and CoupFlu stats aren’t the only things in need of an audit.
YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
You beat me to it. One of the very few silver linings to the very dark Covid cloud.
WHAT IF THE GAVE A PUBLIC SCHOOL AND NO ONE CAME ?
Teachers unions have ruined public edumacation.
Teachers? more like sock puppets for liberal crap they be,
Ha ha!
Maybe we’ll get our school taxes back. :)
Time to fire some teachers....lotsa teachers.
The one bright shining star from the government-mandated darkness (shutdowns)!!
I pray it continues to grow! The absolute best thing America can do right now is to disband or at least cripple our current “public skoolz”!!!
I've seen it first hand, up close.
New hires THEN go through an indoctrination period regarding the local school that hired them and the Superintendent's personal plan for it's district.
Shut it all down.
(Apologies to working parents who are unable to homeschool.)
Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.There is a big reason why public schools are in the tenth plank of communism (above), and that is to indoctrinate rather than educate.
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