In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. Notably, 36% of reporting states recorded their highest homeschool enrollment numbers ever — exceeding even the peaks reached during the pandemic.
It’s not just fundies who are homeschooling. A very well-loved (and very liberal) family friend of mine started a home-school co-op for her kids and their neighbors because they were seriously unimpressed with the district test scores in science and social studies. Her kids are intelligent, independent, well-adjusted, and well-read.
She did it because she lived in a red-state and wanted a modern, coherent, first-class education for her kids instead of theocratic indoctrination.
This is the first intelligent comment in this entire thread. Public schools in the US don’t teach critical thinking, you’re lucky if you get a teacher that does. There’s a reason the rich don’t send their kids to public school.