How homeschoolings rise during the pandemic has impacted traditional school enrollment

Kelly Konieczki:

We were going to school. We were shuffling back and forth. It's this hustle-and-bustle kind of thing. And when all of that all of a sudden just stopped, I was like, wait a minute. The pandemic taught a lot of people about what life could and should be like.

And I just wanted to continue with that. I said, well, if there was ever a time to try homeschooling, it's now, because things are crazy.

Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education: We have been shocking the homeschool movement for a while, and we were noticing an uptake, a surge in homeschooling before the pandemic. And during the pandemic, the numbers really shot up.

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