Why Are So Many Families Choosing the Homeschool Route?

Parents are fed up.

For the 2023–2024 school year, more parents than ever have decided to pull their kids out of public school and educate them at home instead.

Things like book bans, bullying, school district politics, and school shootings all contribute to the growing homeschool trend. Parents want to equip their children with the safety, learning skills, and truthful 21st century knowledge they need to grow into successful adults. And public schools no longer provide that.

Shocker, right?

Book Bans

Let’s start with, in my opinion, one of the more appalling education roadblocks. I’m talking about the highly-regarded books that kids aren’t allowed to read in libraries or public school classrooms.

Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania are the worst offenders, but there are about a dozen more GOP states that participate in book banning.

Here’s a list of some of the most recognizable forbidden titles:

The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Kite Runner
1984
The Color Purple
Of Mice and Men
The Bluest Eye
The Grapes of Wrath
Animal Farm
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies
A Farewell to Arms
The Great Gatsby

Seriously? These books are classics. Every human being should read these books at least once in their lifetime.

Bullying

This next subject is heartbreaking. Kids are relentlessly bullied at school for doing or being anything other than the ‘norm.’

Here’s a sobering statistic from Education Week:

“A Pew Research Center survey of parents conducted in the fall of 2022 found that nearly three-quarters of parents said they were either very or somewhat concerned about their child being bullied.”

Some of the worst cases end up with the bullied child committing suicide. Like I said before, heartbreaking. Parents who have suffered a loss like this, live the rest of their lives with a broken heart that never heals.

Divisive school districts

Far-right parent groups like Moms for Liberty (AKA the minivan taliban) have no doubt contributed to the mass exodus from public schools.

Their agenda? They oppose any school curricula that mention LGBT rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory, and discrimination. That means they’re against any educational resource that mentions anything related to social progress. Huh?

And they’re not alone. Moms for Liberty is the largest of the so-called ‘parental rights’ groups, but there are many others like them that have become power players in GOP politics. Sad, but true.

School shootings

Not much left to say here. It’s cruel and despicable. Period.

Finally, as a parent with grown kids, if I had been faced with the same circumstances that parents are facing today, I wouldn’t hesitate pulling my kids out of public school and homeschooling them instead.

It’s no wonder homeschooling is getting so popular.

Okay. Rant over. For now.

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This article was originally published on DEI for Parents

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