I am a very passionate homeschooler. I think it is a wonderful way of life and I not enough people fully grasp what it actually entails. I also understand it is not for everyone; not for everyone's temperament or family structure.
We first started considering homeschooling because of our dissatisfaction with the Jewish day school model and our inability to afford it given the number of children we wanted to have. And so, I very deeply understand and commiserate with families who cannot afford private.
This is a moment to advance school choice. But school choice advocates do themselves NO FAVORS by responding to the destruction of the public school model with "good." Because no, it's not good. Millions of American families are left adrift and their kids are deeply suffering.
They cannot just homeschool or enroll their kids in private. When we destroy the public school model, as we currently are, without a plan to implement new solutions, we are sacrificing these families and their kids.
And so, this is why you will see me, a passionate homeschooling mother who might one day send kids to private, vigorously arguing for the reopening and restructuring of our public school model, especially in states where school choice has no legs.
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