You would think that the growing popularity of homeschooling in the United States would be in more news headlines. Estimates from the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) reveal a staggering increase in the number of homeschool students since the 1970s—by a factor of 238. Of course, there was a surge in homeschooling during the Covid lockdowns, when many public schools either went completely virtual or implemented harsh measures that severely limited both learning and student satisfaction. But the NHERI data shows that there was already a long, pre-Covid trend of growth in homeschooling, from 13,000 students in 1973 to 2.5 million in 2019. The homeschool population exploded above the trend to 3.7 million in 2021, but in 2022 it fell to 3.1 million, which is above the trend as established in the 2016-2019 school years.
The articles on this phenomenon in the corporate press are scant and most of them feature heaping doses of state paternalism and fear-mongering. A Washington Post article quotes a Harvard law professor: “Policymakers should think, ‘Wow — this is a lot of kids. […] We should worry about whether they’re learning anything.” The same article quotes a Florida school board member: “Many of these parents don’t have any understanding of education.”
But even the Washington Post can’t avoid mentioning what parents say about their reasons for rejecting public schools. They cite violence, exposure to explicit photos and videos on other students’ phones, and “the intrusion of politics into public education.”
The Washington Post article goes completely tone-deaf when it warns that homeschool groups “often cluster by shared ideology,” meaning that parents get to decide how their kids learn about politics and pandemics, and that it might not be the state-approved narrative. The horror! […]
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