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The COVID lockdowns caused many Americans to stop trusting the government's propaganda and led to a

39% increase in homeschooling in the 2021 school year.

While the number of homeschoolers did decline some after this jump,

homeschooling has continued growing in popularity over the last several years.

Today, approximately 6% of American school children are homeschool.

Parents choose to homeschool for a variety of reasons, including objections to certain political

and social agendas promoted by some government schools. Many parents became aware of how many government

schools were sacrificing education for indoctrination while observing their children's

COVID-era virtual classrooms. Some parents started homeschooling as a temporary measure,

but discovered they could teach their children as well or better than the so-called experts.

This makes sense. No one knows of child's skills, interest, strengthens weaknesses better than the child's parents.

Two recent developments are going to increase homeschooling's popularity.

First is the troubling results of the most recent national assessment of education progress,

NAEP.

NAEP is commonly referred to as the nation's report card.

In NAEP's latest assessment, the average eighth grade science score was significantly lower than the pre-lockdown 2019 score.

Other scores, including for 12th grade mathematics and reading, are lower than they were 10 or more years ago.

To put this in perspective, consider that in 1992,

spending per pupil was an inflation-adjusted $12,000.

Whereas the average per pupil spending in 2021 in most recent year for which figures

are available was $17,000, $500, a nearly 50% increase. The decline in scores also follows a series of federal education reforms

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