In 1971, there were only 78,000 children in the United States who were being educated at home. That number has reached 5 million children over the course of the past year. Of course, the school closures, which were pushed for by the teacher unions, are a significant reason behind the recent increase that has occurred.
A growing trend
Even before 2020, millions of parents across the nation were angry that their kids were falling behind and posting much lower test scores than the children in just about every other wealthy country in the world and in a few of the poor ones.
Instead of learning math, science, history, or, God forbid, being exposed to a little bit of financial literacy, millions of American kids in almost every state are being indoctrinated with radical gender ideologies and woke racial politics.
But things reached a breaking point in 2020 when the corrupt teacher unions forced schools to shut down, In some instances not allowing them to reopen for another two years. But things reached a breaking point in 2020 when the corrupt teacher unions forced schools to shut down.
This is in spite of the fact that the data has demonstrated from the very beginning that it was perfectly safe for children to resume their classes.
What’s the impact on American children’s education?
Finally, what kind of outcomes did we get from all of these school closings? Well, last year, we saw the most significant decline ever recorded in the test scores of American children, and it was very disappointing.
The academic gains that had been made over the previous twenty years were lost as a result of the school closures. And remember that American children in public schools were not doing so well before the closures; they were ranking 30th in math and 20th in science before the closures.
Therefore, it should not come as much of a surprise that millions of parents continue to remove their children from public schools; in fact, this is a trend that we hope will continue.
