This is a terrible, just terrible headline and awful data spin. Let's start with the obvious: "fringe" is a measure of size. "fastest growing" is a measure of

This is a terrible, just terrible headline and awful data spin. Let's start with the obvious: "fringe" is a measure of size. "fastest growing" is a measure of rate. You don't go from size to rate. Next: the data graphically presented has no axes or explanation, but what it appears to be showing is the percentage growth of each schooling type relative to its 2017 value. But then there's this bit: > In 390 districts included in The Post’s analysis, there was at least one home-schooled child for every 10 in public schools during the 2021-2022 academic year ... > The Post estimates that there are now between 1.9 million and 2.7 million home-schooled children in the United States, depending on the rate of increase in areas without reliable data. Let's be charitable and say 2.7 million. The Post data says that's 158% of the 2017 value, and 2020 was, oh, let's say, 164%, so in 2020 there were 2.8 million. According to the DoE, there were 48.1 million kids in public schools in 2020. This is at best 1 in 17. Surely the Doe and the WP can't differ by a factor of 2? https://research.com/universities-colleges/number-of-public-schools-in-the-us https://research.com/universities-colleges/number-of-public-... Last, the graph clearly shows that, post covid, home-schooling is the fastest declining form of education. It has dropped 15% since 2020 alone, whereas public school has dropped by, what, about 1%? Why isn't this the headline? Or that clearly homeschoolers are being moved to private institutions?