I can't really blame parents for homeschooling their kids when, especially after COVID, students have had their grades and proficiency fall off a cliff. The tre

I can't really blame parents for homeschooling their kids when, especially after COVID, students have had their grades and proficiency fall off a cliff. The trend was pre-COVID but ACT scores have fallen drastically. If you watch teachers on Tiktok, etc, or just talk to them in person, they will tell you that the current generation of children are so far behind where they are supposed to be academically, even in areas with relative wealth. It's wild, the state of the US education system is in shambles. Some of it is related to COVID, but a lot of it is just policy failures and really strange incentives. My dad was a teacher at one point and the principal told him he could only fail X number of students (despite a lot more not being proficient) because they'd miss out on certain funding, and it wasn't worth dealing with the parents. My dad eventually quit, in part because of this. That leads to sort of a education backlog where the next grade picks up students that don't meet the criteria, so they are teaching down, slowing the education of everyone else...which moves those kids to the next grade where once again they aren't proficient and it just dominoes. That was 20 years ago, I can't even imagine the state of things now.