A couple of decades ago, when we were homeschooling - and even earlier - I used to joke about literate people able to do math becoming an elite-of-the-capable. It was supposed to be a JOKE!!! Not a prophecy.
More to the point, maybe, Covid shutdown school-at-home showed students and parents a couple of things. Their lives didn't end, and what schools were actually teaching.
Parents and students who see little or no value in education disappeared from schools, relying on some combination of crime and gooberment social programs to get them through life.
Many parents who saw the @#$% their kids were being taught and that they could survive without PS realized they could figure out how to afford private school tuition or to homeschool.
And many parents concluded PS wasn't THAT bad and sent their kids back to PS, hoping to rely on supplementation and/or efforts to reform/improve PSs ... or just went back to their pre-Covid "normal".