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The Michael Berry Show

Parents Are Moving Their Kids Out Of Public Schools

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

So we've seen a structural shift away from the public school.

0:10.7

The private school has seen a 7% increase since 2017 alone.

0:18.2

And these trends were already in place, but this accelerated them.

0:23.0

You don't see a tectonic change like this overnight.

0:28.5

Or something that is so intrinsic to the life experience.

0:36.7

If your kids are in fourth grade, and you've got a kid in fourth grade and a kid in eighth

0:42.2

grade and a kid who's senior in high school, the moment at which you start going, you

0:47.0

know, I'm going to let my senior finish, but I'm going to pull my fourth grader and maybe

0:51.5

my eighth grader out of the public school and homeschool them.

0:55.3

This is like saying, I think we're not going to live in a house.

1:00.5

We're going to live in a tent.

1:03.8

This is a dramatic shift.

1:06.0

It's not good or bad, I think it's good, but this is a dramatic shift.

1:13.8

And think of all the things that are conspiring against you to become a homeschool family.

1:20.7

Number one, who's going to do the teaching?

1:25.3

This is scary thought for most people.

1:29.8

In almost no homes, is there a person who was already a teacher available to teach?

1:38.9

I don't know about you.

1:40.8

I loved school.

1:43.5

I am a believer in a lifetime of learning, and I'm committed to that as is my wife.

1:50.4

And I preach this to my kids.

1:52.0

Now what they do when they leave home, I can't know.

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