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That's missing the main reason for the massive increase in home schooling over the past 3 years: parents wanting to escape mandatory COVID measures in schools
by logicchains 3y ago
That's missing the main reason for the massive increase in home schooling over the past 3 years: parents wanting to escape mandatory COVID measures in schools like masking.
- troupe 3y agoThat might be some of it, but I don't think it explains why the numbers are staying so high. A number of parents got a view into the quality of education and decided they could do better themselves.
- lolinder 3y agoMasking was not driving the homeschooling surge during COVID, it was driven by the sense parents had that during lockdowns they were effectively forced into homeschooling their kids with none of the agency that comes with full homeschooling. If they were going to be doing most of the teaching anyway while schools were closed, a lot of parents figured they'd ditch the poorly executed virtual lessons and just homeschool on their own terms.