Opinion | Katherine Stewart: How a vocal minority of parents hijacked home schooling in America. - NBCNewsTHINK
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This past year, millions of families experienced remote learning and entertained the idea of home schooling for the first time.to send their kids back to school. Others will make do with remote learning this school year, and still others are certain to take up more seriously the idea of home schooling. When they do, they will discover two things. First, home schooling is already an attractive option for many American families, and it is the reality for an.
If home education is to be the healthy and necessary force that it can, we need to improve the home-schooling system now. In many states, there are few meaningful guidelines for the families that need them, and it remains this way because home-schooling advocacy is heavily influenced by groups that can turn to extreme methods to pursue extreme agendas. If home education is to be the healthy and necessary force that it can be as we negotiate how to educate our children through the pandemic and beyond, we need to improve the home-schooling system now.
To be clear, home schooling can be an excellent option for many families, and it will undoubtedly be an even more appealing option for many more in the near future."Like it or not, we are suddenly a nation of homeschoolers," as the
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