“Homeschool Nation” with Laura Meckler

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Home schooling has become America’s fastest-growing form of education, according to a Washington Post analysis. This form of education, which largely has roots within evangelical Christian households, has grown into a broader movement, especially since the pandemic. Laura Meckler is national education writer at The Washington Post and is co-author of a series for The Post called “Homeschool Nation,” which takes an in-depth look at the surge in home schooling in the U.S. and motivations for its rise, which include concerns over school shootings, curriculum ideologies and more. She joins WITHpod to discuss how this mode of education has evolved, the forces that have driven its growth, recent declines in public school enrollment, the increasing popularity of microschools and more.

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0:00.0	This is not a one-off decision. This is not a one-off decision. This is something that's with you day and day out and you're taking on an enormous amount of responsibility in terms of giving your
0:16.8	kids a well-rounded education. It isn't just about teaching them to read, which by the
0:21.0	way isn't always that simple, isn't just about math, it's, you know, about,
0:24.8	hopefully it's the arts and it's science and it's history and it's, you know, there's everything
0:30.0	that school gives you.
0:31.5	So I think that it does take a certain type of person to want to do this and I guess there are more people like that than we realized.
0:40.0	Hello more. Hello, and why is this happening with me your host Chris Hayes?
0:47.0	Well, we're, I don't know what tree we would describe ourselves in relation to the pandemic,
0:57.0	post-ish pandemic. And, you know, one of my abiding themes on this podcast is that the omnidirectional disruption of the pandemic is
1:05.2	undercredited as a monocauseal theory for everything that's happened afterwards.
1:10.1	It's staring us in the face and for some reason we want to come up with a lot of reasons why things since then have been so dislocated and strange in so many ways.
1:17.6	One of the things I think that's happened and we've talked about this in the podcast is the changes to work life, particularly for office workers where we've seen
1:24.7	people that did office work and had the kinds of jobs that lent themselves to
1:30.2	remote work by and large have come back to the office but not at the levels that they were beforehand.
1:36.1	So you're seeing a lot of hybrid stuff, people coming in three days a week.
1:39.0	We're seeing this in sort of like business district traffic, foot traffic, car traffic, public transit in major cities, right?
1:46.5	People are not going to downtowns at the same level they used to.
1:48.6	So there's some has come back, but there's also been a kind of permanent alteration
1:53.0	in the work habits and the location of work
1:57.4	and people's relationship to commuting and remote work.
2:00.9	In school, there's something similar happening, though not quite as straightforward.
2:05.4	So it's not like hybrid remote schooling has persisted.
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