With the number of young people being schooled at home jumping by more than 50 percent (while public-school enrollment dropped), the Post was forced to admit its “arrival as a mainstay of the American education system, with its impact … only beginning to be felt.”[Our] analysis reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions that most families would return to schools [once Covid restrictions were lifted.]
According to the Post, the practice of schooling at home “embrace[s] a largely unregulated practice once confined to the ideological fringe.”
