In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. Notably, 36% of reporting states recorded their highest homeschool enrollment numbers ever — exceeding even the peaks reached during the pandemic.
Home schooling is most often used by religious extremists to a) prevent the kids from realizing what normal kids do, b) to indoctrinate them, and c) to keep science out of schooling as far as possible.
Sadly, oversight over home schooling is fragile at best, so this produces a new generation of mental incest.
As a former home schooled kid, most of my peers that I home schooled with amounted to little more than breeders.