“The vast majority [of parents] are saying, ‘We’ve been really trying to do what the schools are asking us to do, but we just can’t do this anymore,’ ” said J. Allen Weston, executive director of the National Home School Association, which has been fielding inquiries on the topic.
Public-school advocates say they worry home schooling is isolating for children and lacks safeguards to ensure a basic education. Elizabeth Bartholet, a Harvard Law School professor specializing in civil rights, called for “a presumptive ban” on home schooling in virtually all circumstances last year in the Arizona Law Review. She said home schooling jeopardizes children’s rights to “learn things that are essential for employment and for exercising meaningful choices in their future lives.”
Vanderbilt University’s Joseph Murphy, who studies home schooling, said there is scant evidence of abuse or widespread negative outcomes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-pandemic-pushes-more-parents-to-go-all-in-for-home-schooling-11612089000
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