Posted on 08/04/2022 3:59:21 PM PDT by DoodleBob
More New York City families are foregoing traditional public schools in favor of homeschooling, state data analyzed by The Post shows.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Big Apple homeschool students has more than doubled, to roughly 12,900 kids, according to the data.
The surge in city parents opting to homeschool coincides with a nationwide trend sparked by the pandemic — one that has continued even with the return of in-person classes.
“I like being engaged and involved in their lives,” said Julie Kvyatkovsky, a single mom of 9 year old twin daughters in Brooklyn, who shifted to homeschool after a disastrous foray into remote learning.
“It was so weird, so unstable, that I decided I was going to keep them home,” Kvyatkovsky told The Post.
“I sat them down and said, ‘Girls, we’re going to be doing something different — we’re going to be opening up our own school. I’m going to be the principal, the teacher, the gym teacher, the art teacher. Are you with me?’ ” she recalled telling her kids.
Kvyatkovsky turned her kitchen into a classroom, created homemade student IDs, and named their school — Home Sweet Homeschool.
She gave her daughters the option to return to public school, but they both decided to stick with the new medium at least for elementary grades.
The spike in homeschooling comes as New York City public schools have already lost tens of thousands of students during the pandemic. Some of those losses could be due to families moving out of the city, but experts explained why parents may also be looking for other schooling options.
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If there is a doubling+ in the number of HSed kids, that's a growing quantum of families not dissuaded by the abusive regulatory scheme.
This is happening all over the country. Parents are taking their kids out of public schools and enrolling them in private schools or home schooling them.
The biggest problem about NY and NYC is that the democrats keep making the lives of the people hell, yet they people act like masochists and keep reelecting them. “Please sir may I have another!”
An entirely expected outcome.
Sadly, not all families are situated to be able to do this.
There are a number of low cost ways to educate your kids. Pods are one way, where several parents get together and either hire a teacher or each of the parents teaches the kids one day a week.
There are also any number of private schools and you can get scholarships and other private help if you can not afford the fees.
Right.
Friends of mine have three boys.
They sent them all to a private Christian school.
The only way they afforded it is that she got a job at the
school as a teacher's aide - therefore qualifying them
for an employee discount on the boys' tuition.
All three boys are in (2) or out (1) of college now -
all three got scholarships.
Where there is a will, there may quite possibly be a way.
is anyone fighting the mandate in the US?
2 Aug: Common Sense News: Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis
In the days leading up to the mandate, transportation officials were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.
by Rupa Subramanya
https://www.commonsense.news/p/court-documents-reveal-canadas-travel
I’m sure the governemnt will make sure that doesn’t stand.
Thanks.
I’d like to think where there’s a will there’s a way. I’m
not as confident as you two seem to be, there always is.
The problem is, our public schools are out of control Too
many Communists are engaged in forcing bad policy, and I’m
not totally confident doing away with the DOE would resolve
all the issues.
I do favor home schooling and private schooling, the latter
being very expensive.
At a time when families are younger and not fully established
yet, we have this potential large draw on the family budget.
It’s pretty tough, and if you have two or three kids, it’s
very difficult.
We could hold off to have kids until our families are better
established, but then we stand still while others are out
there procreating at will, with the government funding their
antics. They don’t give a hoot what their kids are being
indoctrinated into.
Unless they are looking at only one data point, data is plural. The headline should end with ‘data show,’ not ‘data shows.’
Other than that, the article points to a positive trend.
And the spaces freed up by parents taking their kids out of the public school classrooms, which have become woke and weirdo wonderlands, will promptly be filled by the numerous offspring of illegal criminal invaders. Idiot states and cities like NY and NYC, respectively, just LOVE their illegals and their sanctuary city status. So the silver lining in all this is that the taxpayers won’t have to spend quite as much building new buildings for the offspring of illegal scum suckers; they’ll be able to take over the space vacated by homeschoolers.
But our kids were not going to be locked up in the kiddy prison for the crime of being a child.
It just was not going to happen.
Should there be a better way? Yep. No doubt.
Oh and even though they do not attend the public schools I still make a pain of my self at the school meetings. Because those are their peers and what happens to them is going to splash over onto our kids.
You can only do what is best for your kids.
Thanks for the follow-up.
We had our kids in private school through about the 8th
grade.
I wish all parents would keep their kids home and home school them at least until after the November election. The demonRATS are getting desperate and I expect them to make these next few months pretty damn ugly. I’m praying for the school kids.
I’ve read that even private schools are getting as bad as public schools in the last few years.
Yup.
The responsible self-reliant people are not having kids -
but the irresponsible are - and they are relying on
Uncle Sugar - not themselves.
It certainly does not bode well for the future of society or the country.
yes
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