{"id":1767021,"date":"2022-12-08T03:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767021"},"modified":"2022-12-08T03:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:17:36","slug":"americas-education-system-is-so-bad-even-leftists-are-homeschooling-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-education-system-is-so-bad-even-leftists-are-homeschooling-their-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Education System Is So Bad, Even Leftists Are Homeschooling Their Kids"},"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\">24<\/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%2Famericas-education-system-is-so-bad-even-leftists-are-homeschooling-their-kids%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=1767021&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>A <a href=\"https:\/\/outschool.com\/articles\/changing-homeschooler-demographics-post-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new survey shows<\/a> that after schools arbitrarily shut down for several consecutive months, parents of all political backgrounds continue to take on the rigors and responsibilities of homeschooling long after schools have reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Educators in both public and private schools should be asking why this is. Why would parents decline the services of certified professionals running various curricular and extracurricular programs at an operational, fully equipped campus just down the road? Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars go into these schools, which not only educate children but serve as the cultural center of most localities. By homeschooling, parents are saying no to all that \u2014 along with the lifestyle they could have without kids at home \u2014 and instead shouldering the burdens of pedagogy, instructional materials, scheduling, behavioral management, and socializing their kids throughout their academic careers.<\/p>\n<p>Not only this, but why would parents on the left who agreed with lockdowns and are largely sympathetic to public schools opt to homeschool? According to the survey, \u201c47% of new homeschoolers skewed left<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>of center self-reporting as either progressive or liberal (vs. 32% pre-Covid homeschoolers).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Educators need to investigate this, but rather than confront the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/public-schools-have-no-one-but-themselves-to-blame-for-enrollment-drops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">glaring problems<\/a> of schooling \u2014 low standards, chaotic classes, corrupt bureaucracies, rampant tech addiction, and leftist propaganda \u2014 or do the slightest bit of soul-searching, nearly all administrators and educators have dismissed these concerns and now pretend that the last two years never happened, except when they need to make excuses to the communities they serve. The monopoly on public education has afforded them the luxury to forget everything and learn absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this complacency better illustrated than in the recent book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.acton.org\/archives\/123848-progressives-remember-covid-but-refuse-to-learn-from-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children\u2019s Lives, and Where We Go Now<\/a>\u201d by Anya Kamenetz. Despite devoting more than 300 pages to the mistakes made by public school leaders and education unions during Covid, Kamenetz never thought to question the general mediocrity of these institutions. Instead, she wholeheartedly supports them and advocates for more funding. How exactly will more money make up for the learning loss and the psychological damage done by derelict school systems? Kamenetz never says, but she does find time to attack President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves parents of all political persuasions to determine what they can do to save their kids. Sure, some may <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/30\/the-southlake-schools-uproar-shows-parents-need-to-speak-up-about-their-kids-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fight the good fight<\/a> and send their kids to public schools, be more vocal at school board meetings, and keep a close ear to what\u2019s happening in their children\u2019s classes. Others may be blessed with a classical school that recreates the old-fashioned learning experience that prevailed in the West before things got so bad. And some may simply hold their noses and think happy thoughts as they drink the Kool-Aid, convincing themselves that everything will be fine and that their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/smartphones-are-killing-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clinically depressed and gender-confused child<\/a> who spends xir days binging on violent anime and #neurodivergent TikTok videos is simply going through a phase and will learn to read and do math eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Or they can try<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeschooling may be a huge commitment of time and energy, but it\u2019s also the only real way to protect kids from bad kids, bad teachers, and bad ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":1767024,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1767021","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\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}