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Homeschooling has shot up dramatically over the last two years, to the point that today one out of five families with children is homeschooling.<\/p>\n

According to data from the US Census Bureau\u2019s Household Pulse Survey,<\/a> ever since 2012, the percentage of homeschoolers held steady at 3.3%.\u00a0 But in the Spring of the 2019-2020 school year, 5.4% of households with a school-aged child were homeschooling.\u00a0 In the Fall of the 2020-2021 school year, that number more than doubled to 11.1%.\u00a0 And in the next semester, in the Spring of the 2020-2021 school year,<\/a> that number nearly doubled again, to 19.5%.<\/p>\n

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These numbers reflect the percentage of children who were taught at home but not enrolled in a school, whether public or private.\u00a0 During the COVID shutdowns, lots of children were homeschooled against their family\u2019s will, as schools switched to online instruction.\u00a0 But those students are not included in these statistics.<\/p>\n

No doubt some parents are keeping their children at home once schools have opened up out of fear of the pandemic.\u00a0 But a large number of public schools that switched back to in-person classes are giving families the option to continue online learning.\u00a0 These numbers, though, reflect the percentage of Americans who have pulled their children out of government schools altogether.<\/p>\n

The public schools\u2019 venture into online learning and teacher-directed homeschooling was mostly disastrous.\u00a0 Teachers, on the whole, were given little training or direction in that kind of education.\u00a0 Many children, bored and starved of social interaction, just tuned out that attempt at schooling, writing off a year or more of their education.<\/p>\n

That is a far cry from homeschooling, in which children have a live teacher\u2013a parent\u2013who works with them one-on-one, with carefully designed curriculum and online resources.<\/p>\n

Stephen Duvall, Director of Research for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, who discusses this data<\/a>, says that the top reason parents say that they homeschool is concern for their children\u2019s safety.\u00a0 That would include COVID worries, but this was also the main motive before the pandemic, with parents troubled by crime, lack of school discipline, and bullying.<\/p>\n

But the next highest reason for homeschooling is academic concerns.\u00a0 In many schools, academic performance is dismal.\u00a0 Whereas homeschooling parents can provide for their children high-quality curriculum and instruction in math, reading, writing, and the content areas.<\/p>\n

Related is parental dissatisfaction with school curriculum.\u00a0 The push for critical race theory, transgenderism, and other kinds of \u201cwoke\u201d ideological indoctrination\u2013which has become strongly emphasized in schools this past year\u2013is surely another factor in the soaring rate of homeschoolers.<\/p>\n

But homeschooling cannot be dismissed as a matter of \u201cwhiteness.\u201d\u00a0 The Pulse Survey\u00a0report on the Fall 2020-21 school year showed that racial minorities\u2013which typically have public schools that are especially bad academically and unsafe\u2013have even higher homeschool rates than white people do.\u00a0 When 11% of white families were homeschooling, 12% of Hispanics were and 16% of Black families.\u00a0 (I\u2019m not finding the racial breakdown in the latest numbers that show 19.5% of all Americans homeschooling.)<\/p>\n

Joy Pullman sees this surge of homeschooling as one of her 7 Reasons for\u00a0 Hope<\/a>\u00a0:<\/p>\n

If you combine current private school and homeschooling enrollment, we\u2019re nearing a level of detachment from government schools the United States hasn\u2019t seen since the secular nationalization of K-12 education began. We\u2019re talking a watershed moment that could dramatically upend leftists\u2019 strong strategic advantages from controlling American education,\u00a0because<\/a>, as\u00a0I\u2019ve<\/a>\u00a0repeatedly\u00a0detailed<\/a>, \u201cpublic schools are\u00a0spectacularly successful<\/a>\u00a0leftist\u00a0recruitment centers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breaking leftist control of child formation is a non-negotiable precondition for an American renaissance. That process could be underway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo:\u00a0 Homeschooling Family via Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0 License<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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