11.1% of families are homeschoolinghttps://www.joannejacobs.com/2021/03/11-1-of-families-are-homeschooling/Homeschooling has more than tripled since schools closed a year ago, reports the Census Bureau. About 3.3 percent of U.S. families with school-aged children were homeschooling pre-pandemic. That rose to 5.4 percent in the first week of April. By the first week of October, 11.1 percent were homeschooling.
For Black families, the change was even more dramatic: 16.1 percent of Black families were homeschooling their children in the fall; the rate for Hispanics was 12.1 percent.
Black and Hispanic families are the most likely to be in all-remote districts.
“A clarification was added to the school enrollment question to make sure households were reporting true homeschooling rather than virtual learning through a public or private school,†reports the Census.
My emphasis.
Homeschooling has almost tripled in just a year! Sacred bovine! And even if that number gets cut in half post-Covid homeschooling will have almost doubled.
This is big on a couple of levels. First, these new homeschoolers' respect for PS teachers will be transformed - appreciation for the truly good, demystification for the mediocre and ineffective. Second, homeschooling is almost by default a single income earner endeavor. I've known exceptions, but the second earner usually either worked evenings or did home sales, e.g. Avon, Pampered Chef, or Christmas Around the World (long defunct).
