{"id":1236645,"date":"2022-01-24T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1236645"},"modified":"2022-01-24T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:54:04","slug":"homeschooling-rates-doubled-during-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/homeschooling-rates-doubled-during-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschooling Rates Doubled During 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhomeschooling-rates-doubled-during-2020%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1236645&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Over the course of the pandemic, alternative schooling options have become more attractive to parents in the midst of COVID-19 regulations and constant school closures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The U.S. Census Bureau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/03\/homeschooling-on-the-rise-during-covid-19-pandemic.html\">released<\/a> data in March of last year, noting that the coronavirus pandemic pushed a renewed desire for many to homeschool their children.&nbsp;According to the bureau, \u201cnational homeschooling rates grew rapidly from 1999 to 2012 but had since remained steady at around 3.3%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the spring of 2020, around 5.4% of households in the United States with school-age kids said they were homeschooling. By the time fall hit, 11.1% of households with the same age kids said they were homeschooling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThat change represents an increase of 5.6 percentage points and a doubling of U.S. households that were homeschooling at the start of the 2020-2021 school year compared to the prior year,\u201d the Census Bureau added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The report also noted that race seemed to be somewhat of a factor in the schooling choices. It stated, \u201c[i]n households where respondents identified as Black or African American [\u2026], the proportion homeschooling increased by five times, from 3.3% (April 23-May 5) to 16.1% in the fall (Sept. 30-Oct. 12). The size of the increases for the other Race\/Hispanic origin groups were not statistically different from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The jump was also seen more in certain states, such as Massachusetts, which saw an increase from 1.5% to 12.1% in homeschooling rates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-01-21\/the-pandemic-pushed-more-families-to-homeschool-many-are-sticking-with-it\">reported<\/a> that in California, almost 35,000 families filed an affidavit with California to start a private home school for five or fewer kids during the 2020-2021 school year. That number was more than double the amount of affidavits filed in 2018-2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Homeschooling numbers also differed in certain cities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAmong the 15 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), for example, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH MSA, went from 0.9% in the spring of 2020 to 8.9% by the fall,\u201d the report noted. \u201cIn contrast, the rate in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, MSA was not significantly different (4.2% and 5.2%) for the same period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Parents in America are more and more interested in alternative forms of schooling as many schools continue to threaten closures or force students to wear masks in the midst of the highly contagious Omicron variant. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere is dissatisfaction with how folks were being taught and treated in schools,\u201d said Martin Whitehead, spokesman for the Homeschool Association of California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">California policies might lead more parents to make similar decisions about schooling for their children, as they have already.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/all-california-school-students-must-be-vaccinated-for-covid-19-under-new-bill\">reported<\/a>, Democratic state Senator Richard Pan \u201cproposed a bill on Monday that would add COVID-19 vaccinations to the state\u2019s list of inoculations for grades K-12 in a move that would require all students to be fully vaccinated starting in 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom (CA) \u201chas also announced an executive order that will require students 12 and over to be vaccinated for COVID-19 once the vaccine is fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNewsom\u2019s executive order allows for medical and religious exemptions. Pan\u2019s new bill, however, does not currently include a religious exemption,\u201d The Daily Wire added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another piece of legislation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/proposed-california-bill-would-allow-kids-12-to-be-vaccinated-without-parental-consent\">introduced<\/a> in the state last week would permit students 12 years of age and up to get the COVID-19 vaccine without parental permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents\u2019 beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health,\u201d California Democratic State Sen. Scott Wiener said, per an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-scott-wiener-san-francisco-1878f7be2355e82c1885754fc53514c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Voters are also responding to school measures and policies by electing new leadership. Newly-elected Republican Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order allowing parents to opt out of school mask mandates if they do not want their children to wear a face covering in school.<\/p>\n<p>However, Youngkin has been met with resistance from school officials who have defied his order.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginia-superintendent-says-students-who-dont-wear-masks-will-be-suspended-in-violation-of-governors-opt-out-order\">reported<\/a>, \u201cFairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Superintendent Dr. Scott Brabrand on Friday issued a 34-page \u2018Principal Briefing\u2019 PowerPoint presentation at a meeting with school administrators that ordered them to suspend students who refuse to wear a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of the pandemic, alternative schooling options have become more attractive to parents in the midst of COVID-19 regulations and constant school closures.\u00a0 The U.S. Census Bureau released data in March of last year, noting that the coronavirus pandemic pushed a renewed desire for many to homeschool their children.\u00a0According to the bureau, \u201cnational &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}