Homeschool enrollment rose 30% amid decline in public school enrollment amid pandemic

Homeschooling saw a 30% increase in 2021-2022 while public school enrollment fell by more than 1.2 million students within the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent study has found.

The study from the nonprofit research organization Urban Institute finds that private school enrollment increased by 4.3% between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2021. Data collected between the 2019-2020 school year and the 2021-2022 school year showed that homeschool enrollment rose by 30%.

The study utilized the annual K-12 private school enrollment counts in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The research said these states are where nearly 80% of U.S. school children resided during COVID. The study also uses estimates of the school-age population in each state as well as data on homeschooling for 21 states and Washington, D.C.

The increase in homeschool enrollment persisted even after many schools returned to in-person instruction…

…"Notably, this dramatic increase reflects enrollment during the second full school year under the pandemic, when most schools returned to in-person instruction," Thoms S. Dee, the Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, wrote in the study report. "The sustained increase in homeschool enrollment during the pandemic is also large in absolute terms and not simply as a large percentage increase relative to its low prepandemic base."

"In other words, increased private school enrollment accounts for roughly 14 percent of the decline in public school enrollment, but increased homeschooling accounts for 26 percent," he added. "Stated differently, for every one-student increase in private schooling during the pandemic, homeschooling increased by nearly two students."…









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This news as reported here is great news for the future of our children. It’s also good news for America.? For too long parents have just let government schools have their way with our kids. Not anymore. While the move to homeschools is great so too is the one to most private schools and many charter schools. Parents are beginning to fight for our public schools and are starting to win some of those battles.

 

While I appreciate the perceived benefits of home schooling, I am a bit concerned over the quantity of knowledge the home schooling instructor may have over every topic.

I would say that few, if any, parents are capable of teaching all subjects such as advanced mathematics, English and history with a base knowledge that individual school teachers may have on those topics.

Additionally, I am apprehensive about other lessons learned by schooling, private or public, such as developing the social skills needed to function in with others of a diverse background, namely socioeconomic and ethnic or religious backgrounds.

 

It’s a slow and difficult process. In the meantime the other options are being used by parents to avoid woke cancel culture, CRT, 1619, and trans propaganda affecting our children. The growth of Home schooling and other alternatives to the standard public schools is here to stay. The locking of our kids out of the public schools and parents seeing what their kids were being taught was a game changer in education.

 

There are on line sources to help with that. Also there are home school associations locally that can create sports, field trips, proms, and graduations so that kids can socially mingle. Also there are home school co ops where multiple parents have groups of kids and share the responsibilities. Some small churches too small to operate a private school facilitate a parental cooperative. People are doing it and they need no government permission to do so though in a dystopian future I’m sure they will be first to be outlawed.