When homeschooling rates soared during the 2020/2021 school year, no one was shocked. After all, homeschooling was just easier for so many parents than virtual schooling, right?
But what educators never saw coming is how many of those parents would not send their kids back to schools when they reopened.
As leading school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis said, “parents have been empowered and emboldened over the past couple of years. They’ve woken up to the problems of the government-run school system and they’re pushing for real solutions.”