We can give you plenty of reasons why you should find a way to homeschool your children, not the least of which is so they learn to read. The public school experiment has failed, and while there’s room for reform, more parents are taking matters into their own hands.
Home schooling has become — by a wide margin — America’s fastest-growing form of education, as families from Upper Manhattan to Eastern Kentucky embrace a largely unregulated practice once confined to the ideological fringe, a Washington Post analysis shows.
The analysis — based on data The Post collected for thousands of school districts across the country — reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions that most families would return to schools that have dispensed with mask mandates and other covid-19 restrictions.
The Post admits that numbers are likely more significant in some locations because reporting is unnecessary. Parents can school kids at home without having to ask permission or notify local districts or authorities—a thing the Education Industrial Complex and its Democrat Union leadership decry as irresponsible.
It is a strange position to take.
Proficiency scores were tumbling long before COVID lockdowns and lockouts. Add the mandates, scaremongering, partisan screeds, indoctrination, and now grooming, and if you have parents who are paying attention, they are looking for ways to get kids out of that failed system.
The Market has responded to the demand. Private charter schools, homeschool groups, there are even turnkey businesses to start a home school, and apps to help parents and homeschool educators connect and coordinate subjects and schedules. Literal and virtual one-room schools where kids of different ages get individual attention and help from older students.
What used to be a parent and their kids has become a network of individuals working together to teach children to read, write, and do math. A village to borrow from Hillary Clinton, though not in the Marxist sense she intended. This is free market learning where parents can move kids tomorrow if the fit is not right without interfacing with a bloated, incompetent, and uncaring bureaucracy.
The Political Left and their Union dogs don’t care for it, but the solution to their problem is to improve the public product. Instead of dumbing down standards and then teaching to those minimal goals or running your school like a gender transition facility, make some changes. Gut the bloated administrative overhead and go back to basics—math, reading, writing, history, critical thinking. And it is in the teacher’s best interests to get this done. When taxpayers can no longer justify the excessive spending for such poor results, the first thing they cut will be teachers and programs, not bureaucrats. And kids will suffer all the more.
You’d think career Democrats would know that, and maybe they do and don’t care. The system has, after all, long been little more than another way to convert tax dollars into campaign contributions. To fund “grassroots” activists (teachers and staff) who regularly violate electioneering laws while pouring progressive drivel into the minds of other people’s kids.
Children have already suffered. The system’s response is to graduate them even when they can’t add or read.
It’s unsustainable, and the Dems know it. Why else would they work so hard to protect a system that does such a poor job? Homeschool parents aren’t donating to Democrat campaigns, holding signs, or knocking on doors.
And the political left will do anything to preserve this lousy institution. No matter what it costs you. And more parents are beginning to see that.
