What's Driving The Surge In Homeschooling?

[@pietervanoudenaren7274]

Interaction amongst students is not always healthy. When bullying happens, it is too easy to escalate before a parent or teacher notices and can interact.

[@kikiuniki3406]

The utter failure of the public school system; that is the primary driver of the homeschooling surge. I want my children to be well educated, not be bullied, not be indoctrinated with nonsense, and not be morally dragged down by their poorly parented peers.

[@borrowtopfan]

Definitely not school shootings

[@longashl]

School safety, teacher conduct, student relationships and bullying, state testing, hours of operation, etc. There are many reasons that parents are turning to homeschool in America

[@Candace0730]

We have too many kids to handle in public school. Having more homeschooled families hopefully helps the nationwide education issue. As a public school teacher I am practicing and searching for ways to allow my students more opportunities to learn in a way that fits them and we will work together to figure that out. Trying to do more good than harm ❤

[@ddchomeschool]

Poor school quality due primarily to preoccupation (at all administrative levels) with testing rather than authentic education.

[@melaniegreen8564]

We also don't do anything about school shootings in our country. No wonder we keep our kids home!

[@MimiRAM0NE]

Nothing to do with dismal education outcomes despite recond high per-student spending.

[@iainmackenzieUK]

Was security an issue for parents making the decision to home school? Or is this issue not as widespread as our media suggest?

[@extendedclips]

Thats a great point, definitely something that should be considered 👍

[@sherrryann]

yes, the "improvements" made to security were not sufficient to us. they made it harder for outside people to come in & gun the children down, but the children themselves as well as the teachers are also a threat to a child verbally, emotionally, mentally, physically, & sexually. it's not worth sending a child on their own into a place that has become a kid day prison rather than a place of learning.

[@iainmackenzieUK]

is that so common? sounds terrible. @@sherrryann

[@sherrryann]

@@iainmackenzieUK unfortunately yes -in almost every state & area in the US, no matter how rural or urban or what the local demographics are.

[@iainmackenzieUK]

very sad to hear. I have been teaching Physics in China for a bout 12 years and thoroughly enjoying it. Very dubious about returning to UK. @@sherrryann

[@snsn7251]

Well done parents.

[@iainmackenzieUK]

(and who is the interviewer??? so sweet :)

[@SageGypsy]

Y'all, know you feed the hand that feeds you!

[@SageGypsy]

Prayer and Praise!!!

[@high_maintenance]

Not a parent but if I were I wouldn’t want to raise my kids around the others either eww! Too much confusion and deviancy

[@manashe102]

Wokeness

[@jessicamontaperto810]

Nope 👎 I ll not put my future kids in public school ever.

[@iloveTrump45]

Indoctrination at school

[@sweetpie7919]

The other parents at school are often a problem. if the schools cold just teach and stick to the curriculum, that would be great. But no, everyone has to put their 2 cents in and one parent shouldn't feel entitled to change things for everyone. What you learn at school should be basic education and life skills too, so that kids can be successful adults. In home economics my older kids learned how to make instant hot cocoa in a microwave, waste of time. My kids are now homeschooled and at nine my son could make homemade pumpkin cinnamon rolls that started with a fresh pumpkin, with no need for my help. I just supervise. My kids are learning a lot more now, they read constantly. Public school was ok, we actually lived in a really good district with a lot of newer schools and nice facilities. But it wasn't great. There was bullying, racism, a lack of books with high property taxes, bullet proof glass windows, alarm buttons everywhere to push in case of an active shooter, mean teachers that never get fired, and endless fundraisers all year long. And for what? Field trips often got canceled. My kids weren't happy.