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Why Are More Parents Choosing Private Schools?

12/8/2022

 
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​Protect The 1st supports cases before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning school choice and follows political developments in favor of the millions of American parents who send their children to private schools, many of which are religious schools.
 
But what is driving the rising numbers of parents to send their children to private schools?
 
Since 2019, some two million children have exited public school for a private alternative, with another two million expected to go private by 2030. More than 3.1 million children study K-12 curricula at home, added to the millions of children in private schools.
 
A recent Washington Post magazine piece by John D. Harden and Steven Johnson captures the reasons why parents opt for a private school for their children, and highlights the reasons behind the decision of some parents who have chosen religious schools:
 
  • Daphna Venyige of Los Angeles told The Post that she sends her children to a private Jewish school “because I want them to learn on a deep level about our people’s history, religious customs, culture, prayers, foods, music and melodies, and core values and ethics.”
 
  • Jason Sampler of Kennesaw, Georgia, said he and his wife love the fact that their children “memorize Bible verses each week; administrators and teachers use every opportunity to show how the Bible informs our lives (when we make good and bad decisions). They see themselves as helpers of a parent’s obligation to train children.”
 
  • Katherine Dalin of Chicago says that she’s kept her children in a Catholic school for the “small classes and strong sense of community.”
 
But parents also are fleeing public schools that often do an inferior job of instruction:
 
  • “We never thought we would be paying for private school,” Jen Read told The Washington Post. “We’re doing this at the expense of saving for college and retirement. We believe in the public school system, and it was heartbreaking to leave it.” She cited “extreme voices” from some parents as one area of discomfort.
 
Parents also value the often-superior instruction of private schools, which by law must teach to the same state-mandated standards as other schools. One woman said, “I struggle with this decision because I believe I’m contributing to the failure of public schools and society, but, honestly, public education is failing anyway.”
 
In all our conversations and work with private schools and parents, what comes through loud and clear is a desire to have children taught specific values along with quality instruction. Protect The 1st will continue to work to protect the free exercise of school choice and the opportunity to make a religious school choice as an expression of one of the most personal decisions on how to raise children.

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