Mom in liberal state urges parents to ditch public schools for homeschooling: 'Change the lives' of your kids

More than 10,000 students have dropped out of the Washington state school system since COVID closures, forcing the Seattle Public Schools district to consider shutting down some schools.

A local mother of two who began homeschooling her children joined "Fox & Friends First" Thursday to discuss why she joined the growing trend in the state and encourage other parents to take charge of their children's education.

"Initially it started because I didn't want to send them to school in masks," Sarah Bernhardt, who started homeschooling in fall 2021, said. "They weren't going to breathe while they were going to bother them all day. But then it kind of became more about how their education, what they were teaching the kids was changing. And I didn't want to have to undo some of the things they were learning."