growth of homeschooling

Florida parents say they want rights in schools. What does that mean?

Looks like the plebs are not complying anymore!

Homeschooling has become the fastest-growing form of education in America, according to a study by the Washington Post, now widely reported (https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/homeschooling-becomes-fastest-growing-form-education-america). We heard it discussed on the radio this morning.

Remember: they closed the public schools because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that was the impetus for many families to take up homeschooling. The Experts all predicted that most of these kids would be sent back to public school once the scare was over.

And they were wrong. The numbers didn’t slide back down. They kept increasing. They’re increasing as we speak.

Well, of course they are! Public schooling is a disaster–at best. Critical Race Theory. Gender change! Drag queens in the classroom. School libraries chock-full of porn. Need we say more? The surprising thing is that only two or three million families are now homeschooling. It should be more–but maybe we are getting there.

And let’s not forget the school boards calling in the FBI to “investigate” parents who don’t like their gender-bending, race-hustling policies.

If our civilization goes belly-up, it will have been our so-called education system that killed it.

But maybe we are finally waking up to that.

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I don’t usually do news on Sundays, but this is good news that ought to hearten us.

All across America, homeschooling is growing by leaps and bounds. An article in The Federalist analyzes the trend (https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/19/homeschooling-is-surging-across-america-homeschoolers-told-us-why/).

Did I just say “trend”? It’s more like a rocket going off.

And why is it such good news?

Because 1) homeschooling produces smarter and wiser citizens who will not be easily deceived; 2) homeschooling could reach a point where it cripples “public education” and, more to the point, the teachers’ unions; and 3) without money and manpower donated by the teachers’ unions, and their indoctrination of young people to shape them into useful idiots–without public education and teachers’ unions, the Far Left Crazy in America dies.

A consummation devoutly to be wished! And prayed for. And worked for.

Anyway, in fall of the 2020-2021 school year, census data showed 11.1 percent of households homeschooling, double the previous year. By May 2021 it was up to 19.5 percent! That is pretty heft growth.

Why is homeschooling on the rise?

The top reasons cited by The Federalist: Parents don’t want their children wearing masks all day; because of the lockdowns, many families were forced to try homeschooling and discovered that they liked it, that it really worked for their children; that they really, really, intensely didn’t like all the Far Left crapola on the curriculum, especially the “transgender” push and Hypocritical Race Theory. Nor were they at all pleased with academic standards that get lowered again and again.

These are compelling reasons, and so far they add up to about a fifth of America’s families opting for homeschooling instead of yielding up their children to the tender mercies of Far Left teachers’ unions.

We don’t know how many children have to stay out of public school before the system collapses and the teachers’ unions along with it.

The unions have doubled down on Critical Race Theory.

Let’s make them pay for it.