Flawed COVID mandates are speeding up the flight out of public schoolshttps://nypost.com/2021/09/30/flawed-covid-mandates-speeding-up-flight-out-of-public-schools/The pandemic has been a disaster for public education. Closed schools and self-serving teachers unions have undermined parents’ faith in the system. The result has been a massive move to private schools and to homeschooling. More than 11 percent of American households are homeschooling their kids. The numbers among black and Hispanic households are now even higher than this average.
There are a lot of reasons for this — I wrote a book on the trend, “The New School,” almost a decade ago. But COVID has accelerated things dramatically.
Homeschooling is safer from infection and, more important, from the ever-changing whims of the educational bureaucracy. Rather than put up with the increasingly intrusive and authoritarian behavior of educrats, parents are taking control.
Reynolds speaks only to the students' exodus. Vax mandates may be leading to a teacher & adminicrat exodus as well.
