Is it any wonder that there is an explosion of interest in homeschooling by parents? (see graph below)
Many school districts won’t reopen classrooms this fall, the American Federation of Teachers are threatening “safety strikes” in other districts that are trying to reopen and in some states such as California both public and private school are barred from reopening in many places.
In addition to traditional homeschooling, many families are pooling resources to pay a teacher to work with small “pods” of children and supplement the virtual learning many school districts will provide. The Washington Post calls the pods “a 2020 version of the one-room schoolhouse, privately funded.”
In May, a poll of 626 parents found 41 percent of them saying they were more likely than before the pandemic to enroll their child in “a home school, a neighborhood homeschool co-op, or a virtual school” once the lockdowns ended.
David Henderson of Stanford’s Hoover Institution says that even those who don’t home-school will push for an expansion of charter schools, which cost, on average, thousands of dollars less than traditional public schools.
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