Between 2019 and May 2021, home schooling rates jumped from about 1% to 8% for Black students – a more than sixfold increase. Among Hispanic students, rates jumped from 2% to 9%. The increase was less dramatic for White families, where home schooling doubled from 4% to 8% over the same time period. Between 2016, the year of the most recently available data for Asian American families, and May, home-school rates went from 1% 5%.
What is driving the shift is difficult to parse, because of the dearth of research that focuses on Black, Latino and Asian families. But previous studies of Black home schooling families found they were often pushed out of traditional school systems when their children encountered racist treatment in the classroom. In interviews, Latino families expressed similar concerns. And Asian families sought to influence their children’s cultural education.
“There was a lot of discussion about how disabled children are disproportionately given detention, suspended, disciplined, and how even in some states, you know, like school resource officers will actually handcuff or even take children, you know, put them in the squad car or whatnot,” Sotelo said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/07/27/pandemic-homeschool-black-asian-hispanic-families/
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