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The widespread closure of schools in the U.S. starting in March of this year — due to speculation that schools might contribute to the spread of COVID-19 — have forced many parents to shoulder increasingly large parts of their children's educations, first in the spring and now during at least the first half of the 2020 school year, when many schools have remained closed and others have shut down after only weeks of being reopened. The vast majority of parents have opted to have their children simply receive institutional instruction at home, usually being taught by their school's instructors over digital mediums such as Zoom. Still, a significant number of parents have chosen instead to pursue homeschooling rather than remote public or private instruction....Jamie Heston, a former board member of the Homeschool Association of California and now a volunteer for the group, confirmed that the group has seen "a very large increase in the number of parents seeking information about homeschooling and pulling their kids from public and private brick and mortar schools to homeschool."...Heston told Just the News that her group has observed several different types of parents seeking out homeschooling information, including those who were already considering making the switch, "parents who didn't choose homeschooling but were forced to consider it due to not wanting to expose their children to the virus by going to a brick and mortar location," and parents whose children were struggling with distance education."We believe that a certain number of these parents will remain homeschooling even after the pandemic is resolved," she said, "but a good majority of them will likely return to schools when they open due to needing to work or just not choosing to homeschool anymore because they have other priorities."
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