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Posted by: News_Desk on 03/29/2021 02:16 AM Updated by: News_Desk on 03/29/2021 02:22 AM
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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

Washington, DC... Homeschooling is a legal instructional option in all 50 states and national homeschooling rates grew rapidly from 1999 to 2012 but had since remained steady at around 3.3%. However, the global COVID-19 pandemic has sparked new interest in homeschooling and the appeal of alternative school arrangements has suddenly exploded. So, how significantly have homeschooling rates increased during the pandemic?



It’s clear that in an unprecedented environment, families are seeking solutions that will reliably meet their health and safety needs, their childcare needs and the learning and socio-emotional needs of their children.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s experimental Household Pulse Survey, the first data source to offer both a national and state-level look at the impact of COVID-19 on homeschooling rates, shows a substantial increase from last spring — when the pandemic took hold — to the start of the 2020-2021 school year.

Using a large, nationally representative sample of U.S. households, the survey shows homeschooling is notably higher than the national benchmarks and offers a glimpse of changes in homeschooling patterns during the pandemic.

We compare survey results from the spring of the 2019-20 school year to results in the fall of the 2020-21 school year to measure the pandemic's impact on homeschooling.

Meeting Education, Health Needs


In the first week (April 23-May 5) of Phase 1 of the Household Pulse Survey, about 5.4% of U.S. households with school-aged children reported homeschooling .

By fall, 11.1% of households with school-age children reported homeschooling (Sept. 30-Oct. 12). A clarification was added to the school enrollment question to make sure households were reporting true homeschooling rather than virtual learning through a public or private school.

That change represents an increase of 5.6 percentage points and a doubling of U.S. households that were homeschooling at the start of the 2020-2021 school year compared to the prior year.

It’s clear that in an unprecedented environment, families are seeking solutions that will reliably meet their health and safety needs, their childcare needs and the learning and socio-emotional needs of their children.

From the much-discussed “pandemic pods,” (small groups of students gathering outside a formal school setting for in-person instruction) to a reported influx of parent inquiries about stand-alone virtual schools, private schools and homeschooling organizations, American parents are increasingly open to options beyond the neighborhood school.

Differences by Race and Hispanic Origin


Homeschooling rates are increasing across race groups and ethnicities.

In households where respondents identified as Black or African American (Table 1), the proportion homeschooling increased by five times, from 3.3% (April 23-May 5) to 16.1% in the fall (Sept. 30-Oct. 12). The size of the increases for the other Race/Hispanic origin groups were not statistically different from one another.


Differences by State



Some U.S. states had much larger increases in homeschooling rates for the 2020-2021 school year than others.

Massachusetts, for example, jumped from 1.5% to 12.1% while many other states did not show a significant change.

Possible contributing factors include local homeschooling variation that predated the pandemic, local rates of coronavirus infections, and local decisions about how school is being conducted during the pandemic.

Differences by Metro Area

Homeschooling rates vary among metropolitan areas, as well (Table 3).

Among the 15 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), for example, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH MSA, went from 0.9% in the spring of 2020 to 8.9% by the fall.

In contrast, the rate in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, MSA was not significantly different (4.2% and 5.2%) for the same period.

Additionally, the rates are likely affected by local rates of coronavirus infections and local public school decisions about modes of instruction.


The Household Pulse Survey is designed to provide near-real-time information about the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on American households.

Education is one of many topics covered by the survey and the data are not designed to provide a highly detailed look at the many different types of educational arrangements and innovations pursued by households in this unusual school year.

Casey Eggleston is a research mathematical statistician in the Census Bureau’s Center for Behavioral Science Measurement.

Jason Fields is the senior researcher for Demographic Programs and the Survey of Income and Program Participation in the Census Bureau’s Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division.


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No Subject
Posted on: 2021-03-29 06:34:46   By: Anonymous
 
The California Board of Education has unanimously approved a new ethnic studies school curriculum that has students “chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice” and encourages a “countergenocide” against White Christians.

The newly-approved California school curriculum encourages a countergenocide against whites, and urges students to chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice, asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice”

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911)
March 25, 2021

Christopher Rufo exposed the radical curriculum earlier this month before the vote but the Board of Education apparently couldn’t care less:

SCOOP: California’s proposed “ethnic studies” curriculum calls for the “decolonization” of American society and has students chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice. The solution, according to one author, is a “countergenocide” against white Christians.

Here’s the story.🧵

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo)
March 10, 2021

R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, the original co-chair, worked on the early American history material. In the references, he denounces the United States as a “Eurocentric, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal, heteropatriarchal, and anthropocentric paradigm brought from Europe.”
pic.twitter.com/E7HYup9GKy

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo)
March 10, 2021

In a related “mandala,” Cuauhtin claims that white Christians committed “theocide” against indigenous tribes, killing their gods and replacing them with Christianity. White settlers thus established a regime of “coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide.”
pic.twitter.com/dAWxhpjIpr

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo)
March 10, 2021

The solution, according to the curriculum materials, is to “name, speak to, resist, and transform the hegemonic Eurocentric neocolonial condition” in a posture of “transformational resistance.” The ultimate goal, Cuauhtin says, is to engineer a “countergenocide” against whites.
pic.twitter.com/KgndpbW3iT

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo)
March 10, 2021

The curriculum includes an official “ethnic studies community chant,” in which students appeal to the Aztec gods—including the god of human sacrifice—for the power to become “warriors” for “social justice.” Students seek a “a revolutionary spirit” through these incantations.
pic.twitter.com/PR5dQl6mSy

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo)
March 10, 2021

Rufo noted that once the curriculum passes “it will install the principles of critical race theory and its related ideologies into the state’s 10,000 public schools, serving 6 million children.”

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    Re:
    Posted on: 2021-03-29 07:03:22   By: Anonymous
     
    Must be hard living in the city.

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      Re: no subject
      Posted on: 2021-03-29 07:20:19   By: Anonymous
       
      After being informed about all this stuff about American History has been changed somewhat by "you know who" I can understand why homeschooling has become a popular option. It's time to wake up people and really shake things up!

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        Re: no subject but shake things up
        Posted on: 2021-03-29 08:38:25   By: Anonymous
         
        Karaoke Night at the Murphys Hotel Bar gonna start back up?

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      Re: move
      Posted on: 2021-03-29 07:22:40   By: Anonymous
       
      Just move to white Idaho to get away from the ethnic immersion.

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        Re: move....or go travel with the illegals and Mexican Cartel
        Posted on: 2021-03-29 10:14:09   By: Anonymous
         
        Idaho still plenty of those murdering European Americans there, next would be Latino about 13% and the Biden administration has already begun bussing immigrants to Idaho and the Dakota's. 86 Million Dollars already spent for hotel reservations in Texas alone and Idaho is now the next transportation destination, Montana put up too big of a stink.
        Rumors are the immigrants are calling families back home telling them they're being housed in beautiful, giant 4 and 5 star palaces, with free food, running water and a bed for everyone, that no one shares a bed, but one bed for one person. Bring a kid, get in free. So now they've already found people with kids not belonging to them, some have been kidnapped, according to rumors.

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Human Rights Violations
Posted on: 2021-03-29 07:47:53   By: Anonymous
 
Here's our newly elected Dictator telling everyone as soon as he hides the evidence against him, he will allow the press to see how well his Disastrous policy of open borders are.
"I will commit to transparency, and – as soon as I am in a position to be able to implement what we are doing right now," Biden said Thursday at a press conference in response to questions on the matter.

"And one of the reasons I haven’t gone down ... is I don’t want to become the issue. I don’t want to be, you know, bringing all of the Secret Service and everybody with me to get in the way. So this is being set up, and you’ll have full access to everything once we get this thing moving," he said.
Why will we have have open borders, no Wall, no Fence at our Border but need four miles of ten foot high fencing topped with razor wire and thousands of Armed National Guards around our Nations Capitol?


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    Re: Human Rights Violations
    Posted on: 2021-03-29 08:39:32   By: Anonymous
     
    It reminds me of when Bush imposed prohibitions on the press covering the American dead returning from Afghanistan in coffins. Withholding access to the press in both instances was/is wrong. The public has the right, and should know.

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Leave Biden alone!!!
Posted on: 2021-03-29 09:48:54   By: Anonymous
 
Damn White House reporters all over Biden, this has to stop. They're going after Biden even harder then they did Trump
Like this one, the nerve going after our President with questions that are ten times worse then trump ever got. " reporter shouted, "Mr. President what are you giving up for Lent?" Can you imagine question this damn difficult for trump? Nooooooo, and then ANOTHER TOUGHER, ROUGHER ONE RIGHT AFTER THAT LAST ONE "What’s the first sweet you’re looking forward to having?" the reporter asked in a follow-up question."
MY GOD FOLKS, STOP THESE NEWS BREAKING IMPOSSIBLE QUESTIONS, HES TRYING TO MAKE AMERICA LAST AGAIN!!!! JUST STOP IT !!! BE HUMANE FOR ONCE, THIS IS TORTURE TO A DEMENTIA MARIONETTE OF A MAN
What journalism, what hypocrisy, what did you idiots vote for? Oh That's right, a free check.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2021-03-29 12:27:47   By: Anonymous
 
I thought homeschooling was a good thing until I actually tried it this past year. Do what you want out there but it's not for me.

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    Home Schooling
    Posted on: 2021-03-29 18:43:31   By: Anonymous
     
    For the Christian right, home schooling is chosen to shield those kids. They are children from non Christian cult homes.
    Our public schools are seen as devious, and I agree.
    The curriculum in our schools now is far from the education most had when we went to school.
    Where are the civics lessons ? critical thinking skills? How many subjects are not taught now for what?The kids I speak to are clueless in subjects, and common sense.
    Why are our students graduating with a 6th grade education?
    What is the emphasis in public schools now?
    From what I see of the students going to our schools, education is the last priority.

    I come from the eastern Pa communities.
    In Mennonite and Amish communities they graduate the kids at 8th grade.
    These kids are better educated and ready for life much more than the 12th grade.

    I'm not interested in biblical teaching, just competency in english, basic math, history, civics. These kids are ready at 8th grade.
    They even know how to hold a pen or pencil. Their cursive is clear , easily read.
    They can handle their financial affairs, unlike the kids of today.

    Home schooling is great with self motivated kids. With a basic computer , or a phone display on a Tv, a kid can progress at their own speed, and delve into many subjects most schools are not interested in such as computer coding.

    If you have a self starter kid, ready to be responsible for their education. They have the yearn to learn unlike so many, there are free on the internet places to learn.
    The old gold standard is khanacademy.org . It is free and on youtube.

    For self starters who love to learn, home schooling is great . For those who go to school because they have to, no.


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