The trend continues to grow.

"The pandemic pushed more families to home-school. Many are sticking with it"

Good to see that people of color and of different culture/ethnicity are embracing home schooling as a way to teach their children of their heritage.

“There is dissatisfaction with how folks were being taught and treated in schools,” Whitehead said. Such frustration often predates — but was exacerbated by — the pandemic, and is one reason more Black families are pivoting to parent-led education, said Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, co-editor of the book “Homeschooling Black Children in the U.S.” Black parents already knew that their children are more likely than white students to be punished and suspended, Ali-Coleman said. They knew, of course, about the school-to-prison pipeline and the fact that their kids will not see themselves in most mainstream curricula, outside of Black History Month. But seeing those realities play out in real time was sobering and motivating. “They saw how teachers were talking to the children, the tone of their voice,” Ali-Coleman said. “More Black parents started having conversations and camaraderie around this — that this is not right.” It should be noted, Ali-Coleman said, that Black families are not a monolith, and their reasons for home-schooling are diverse and layered.

Modern schools are terribly White and Euro-centric when teaching. I think diversity and a recognition that there is a whole World out there that we should be teaching about too is important.

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I also wonder what the response from local school districts will be if more and more people opt out. They already have the power to raise taxes on home owners without a vote. As their student population size decreases will they use that extra to upgrade their schools or will they use the pandemic as an excuse to further take money?

As a retired person with no kids, property taxes are one of the few things I have no say in, and that can take my home from me. I seriously worry that rising taxes will be something that makes my old age difficult.