Hispanic Americans Turn to Homeschooling in Record Numbers

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Hispanic Americans Turn to Homeschooling in Record Numbers Following Covid-Era School Closures

Increasingly, first-generation immigrants, many with limited educational backgrounds and English language skills, are opting to homeschool their children.

By: Racina Weinstein, NY Sun, June 13, 2022:

The growing legions of Americans turning to homeschooling after two years of on-again, off-again public education includes one group for whom the option is particularly challenging — first-generation immigrants.

According to recent Census Bureau data, about a quarter of homeschoolers in America are Hispanic, and 18.2 percent of Hispanic families homeschool their children. That’s up markedly from even six years ago, when 3.5 percent of Hispanic families were educating their children themselves at home.

First-generation immigrants, many of them with limited educational backgrounds themselves, make up a rapidly growing subset of that demographic.

“A lot of these are what we think of as nontraditional homeschoolers — people from low-income, immigrant backgrounds,” the Pacific Research Institute’s senior director of the center for education, Lance Izumi, says. “It kind of shatters that myth that this is basically only a middle-class or maybe a middle-class, white phenomenon.”

Mr. Izumi, who recently authored a book on the homeschooling boom, attributes the growth of homeschooling in this demographic to Covid-related school closures. Low-income school districts, he says, fared the worst during the pandemic.

“If you’re a parent of a child in a low-income area, where the schools are basically causing your child to lose close to entire years worth of learning, you’re going to really look hard at all the alternatives,” he says. “You may not be able to afford a private school…. Therefore the only real alternative for you is homeschooling.”

The coordinator of Hispanic outreach for the Home School Legal Defense Association, Karim Morato, has seen a similar shift since the beginning of the pandemic.

Ms. Morato, a native of Guatemala, left her job as a Fairfax County public school teacher to homeschool her children 14 years ago — when fewer than 2 percent of Hispanic Americans were homeschooling.

At that time, Hispanic homeschoolers were second- or third-generation Americans, with bilingual fluency and a deep familiarity with American culture.

“They already knew the school system, and they spoke English very well,” Ms. Morato says. “They were homeschooling because it’s the best option, but also they wanted [to maintain] their Hispanic legacy by making sure that the children speak Spanish.”

Covid ignited a shift, Ms. Morato says. Public school parents felt like “they were trapped in a system that was failing. The children were not learning,” she says. Private school was not an option for low-income families, so they turned to homeschooling.