Many parents are now considering the option of home school. In May the number was 40% and that rose to 60% in July. Those numbers are higher than they have ever been. I am linking both the May and July articles and also including another poll as well.
From May https://www.federationforchildren.org/national-poll-40-of-families-more-likely-to-homeschool-after-lockdowns-end/
From July
https://fee.org/articles/back-to-school-no-thanks-say-millions-of-new-homeschooling-parents/
Here is the poll. After the lockdowns lift what will your choice be for your kids. If you don't have children give me your thoughts in the replies
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I have no school aged children.
But I do help raise and teach, my neighbors, 8 & 11.
They have been home schooled their whole life.
They are extremely motivated kids. In good health both emotionally and in education. But it has taken my whole neighborhood to do this.
Without the resources of a small village, I don't think this would be the case.
@corlin
Good point. Home schooling is simply not an option for low income and/or single-parent households without significant outside supports.
Trends like this concern me, because they further inequalities in our education system.
@LibertySpeaks @voltronic @corlin
The thing that gets to me about all of this is way back in the 1990s I was stuck far from any relatives in a rural area with a husband on extended deployment and a child who was chronically ill but not hospitalized and had to work. We had no internet and the school would send work home with siblings it was just paper sheets and books. This situation, all of it, has been true for some kids for years just not whole classes and schools. The US sucks at this.