Opting out: A wider range of parents drives home-school surge
Posted on AllSides February 3rd, 2022
From The Center
Eric Gay/AP
The pandemic has prompted families to rethink the best way for their children to learn. For some parents, the decision to home-school is driven by culture as much as by academics.
In the 1970s and ’80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the United States. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in bricks-and-mortar institutions. By 1994, over 90% of families who home-schooled were white.
During the...
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