As parents of students look for alternatives, homeschooling sees ‘explosive’ interest

Sacramento Bee ^ | July 18 2020 | MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

[rintintin]

or Laila Barakat’s children, school will be home, like other students in their district. But they won’t participate in distance learning. Their teachers will be mom and dad.

Barakat has decided to homeschool her three school-aged children – one in first grade, one in transitional kindergarten, and one in pre-kindergarten – instead of connecting them to an online classroom.

“We just decided to take the leap,” said Barakat, a stay-at-home mom and freelance writer in Elk Grove. “At first it seemed like a radical thing, and now more and more people are doing it.”

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article244232657.html#storylink=cpy

[wintertime]

Yep!

Every academically successful child I have ever met has been overwhelmingly homeschooled or “after-schooled” ( homeschooled after and before school hours).

[metmom]

Funny, isn’t it, how parents aren’t qualified to teach their kids at home and yet parental involvement in the child’s education is critical for success and teachers complain about parents who don’t care?

[wintertime]

Sitting here chuckling! :)

These are the same teachers who think parents are too stupid to use a voucher wisely but their 13 year old daughter is fully capable of choosing a competent abortionist and mature enough to managing any life threatening complications.

[kalee]

For later

[Future Snake Eater]

Huh? Your paragraph makes no sense and no two ideas are linked in any way.

As someone who was homeschooled illegally in TX starting in 1985 to a father of five homeschooled children, I can assure you that homeschooling not only “has a chance” but is flourishing.