Saturday, January 02, 2021

Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children

Good news! The positive effects of a pandemic! Please teachers unions keep the public schools shut for longer! 😄 Long overdue to reduce government power and control over the schooling of our children!
Current technology makes it even easier to home school!

"... An estimated 3.3 percent of children were home schooled in 2016, up from 1.7 percent in 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That share roughly tripled this year to nine percent, in an Education Week survey. Gallup agrees, finding that 10 percent of children are now being home schooled. ...
Many private schools, too, are seeing growth in enrollment. That comes after years of declines because of the Great Recession and the proliferation of charter schools which offer options without charging tuition. ..."

Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children – Reason.com Pandemic chaos is driving families to flee government institutions in search of education that better suits their needs.

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