It is National School Choice Week, and parental demand for educational options for their children is surging. A January parent survey revealed that 72% of parents “considered new schools for their children last year–a 35% increase over 2022.” Sixty-three percent searched for a new school, and 44% chose one.
A few years ago, the phrase “school choice” was not commonly used or understood outside of education reform circles. But today, this has changed: The survey revealed that 50% of parents “talked about school choice with family or friends within the last month.”
So why all the buzz about school choice? The disastrous school closures with remote Zoom sessions gave parents a front-row seat in their children’s classrooms, which exposed a lack of learning and too much time devoted to non-academic left-wing political indoctrination. That initial eye-opening awakened parents to the misplaced priorities of public schools. As the teachers unions kept public schools closed for three years in some places in order to get inappropriate political demands met — defunding the police, Medicare for All, a moratorium on charter schools — parental dissatisfaction and even outrage grew.
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