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Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers (education.jhu.edu)

submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by King@blackneon.net to c/news@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Is it good or bad? Does it provide a better education while school is unable, or people are just lazy shits and don't go to school?

[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I don't have a definitive answer for this but I suspect the answer is "it depends". My brother homeschooled for a number of years because he was very bright scholastically and it worked better for him. I tried it for a year but it didn't work nearly as well so I went back to regular school.

All that being said, homeschooling can and is used by some hyper religious parents which can have pretty bad consequences for the children.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

This is great for fascists and nationalists. Get the poor dump ones to be even dumber and poorer while getting those with money and conservative values the support they need from religious/fundamentalist programs.

Perfect recipe of a divided America.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

This will be fine... Praise Bwebus 🙏