Mom in liberal state urges parents to ditch public schools for homeschooling: 'Change the lives' of your kids
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A Washington mom has joined the growing trend of parents homeschooling since the COVID-19 pandemic as Seattle considers closing some schools due to falling public school attendance.
Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
"Initially it started because I didn't want to send them to school in masks," Sarah Bernhardt, who started homeschooling in fall 2021, said. "They weren't going to breathe while they were going to bother them all day. But then it kind of became more about how their education, what they were teaching the kids was changing. And I didn't want to have to undo some of the things they were learning." Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
The number of homeschooled students in the state has nearly doubled since 2019, per data found by the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), a research organization at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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