After a gunman opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, the phones started ringing at the Texas Home School Coalition, and they haven’t stopped yet.
The Lubbock-based organization has been swamped with inquiries for months from parents seeking safer options for their kids in the aftermath of this year’s deadly school massacres, first in Parkland and then in Santa Fe, Texas.
“When the Parkland shooting happened, our phone calls and emails exploded,” said coalition president Tim Lambert. “In the last couple of months, our numbers have doubled. We’re dealing with probably between 1,200 and 1,400 calls and emails per month, and prior to that it was 600 to 700.”
Demands to restrict firearms and beef up school security have dominated the debate following the shootings, but flying under the radar is the surge of interest in homeschooling as parents lose faith in the ability of public schools to protect students from harm.
And it’s not just the threat of school shootings. Christopher Chin, president of Homeschool Louisiana, said parents are also increasingly concerned about “the violence, the bullying, the unsafe environments.”
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3 comments:
Besides all that, saving their kids from Drag Queen Reading Day is another good reason. Schooling our young I have feeling is about to fundamentally change for the BETTER!
I can understand the reasoning with that. However, the social aspect of being among fellow students is a very important part of growing up. That being said, are we setting our kids up for failure by removing that part of school? I suppose until we as a society confront the real reason behind all this violence. Which I believe starts with us being parents again and not our kids friends. This is the lesser of the two evils.
8:06 what you say is true but remember kids also need to be among other kids that want to learn.
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