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> The data really makes it look like homeschooling increased a significant but not mind-blowing amount at the beginning of the pandemic, when parents pulled the
by tivert 3y ago
> The data really makes it look like homeschooling increased a significant but not mind-blowing amount at the beginning of the pandemic, when parents pulled their kids out of school either because they thought they were unsafe or were upset about mask mandates.
I think you're forgetting the biggest reason: it turns out zoom school was a disaster and the worst of both worlds.
- burkaman 3y agoYes thank you, definitely should have mentioned that. My point is that there were a wide variety of pandemic-driven reasons that parents decided to homeschool. Even if all these reasons disappeared when the pandemic culturally ended, we wouldn't expect homeschooling rates to suddenly drop back down to the pre-pandemic level. Switching to homeschooling is a huge change, and so is switching back. I would expect the rates to gradually decline as fewer new students enter homeschool, existing students age out of it, and some students switch back to public or private school, and that's exactly what the data looks like.