The article's failure to mention the shuttering of many of these schools for well over a full academic year seems intentionally negligent. My local school distr

The article's failure to mention the shuttering of many of these schools for well over a full academic year seems intentionally negligent. My local school district, Seattle, didn't have full in-person instruction until the Fall of 2021. We've now got decent data on how disastrous remote learning was for kids, so parents choosing to take matters into their own hands seems like an entirely rational response. I don't have kids but if I did would have absolutely looked into alternate options to zoom lectures for kindergarteners. > In fact, high-scoring districts had some of the biggest spikes in home schooling early in the pandemic, though by the fall of 2022 increases were similar regardless of school performance Parents with resources are opting out of a system that was not providing for their kids. This isn't surprising.