The knives are out for home schooling. How else to interpret the sudden spate of critical articles? Not everything is a conspiracy of aligned special interests. But when a big-time national newspaper starts hammering hard on a rarely covered topic, you can be sure something’s up.
The lockdowns and lockouts of 2020 dealt a reputational blow to the education blob—that quasipublic syndicate of teachers unions, government bureaucracies, brand-name credentialing institutions and their media allies whose mission is to keep taxpayer money flowing to public schools. Most of that money is linked to students, many of whom left during the plague year and haven’t returned. Now the crisis is over and the blob wants its monopoly back.