American Homeschooling Goes Boom
SOCIAL DISTANCING. School children are spaced apart for lunch at Woodland Elementary School in Milford, Massachusetts on Sept. 11, 2020. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Meet the parents yanking their children — some five million of them — from schools that they say aren't working.
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In March 2020, as the coronavirus engulfed America, Kristen Wrobel got the news: “We heard on Friday that there would be no school for two weeks. Which just turned into no school.”
That was the last time her children — one in third grade, one in first — were in a classroom.
In the beginning, they did the remote-school thing. Wrobel, a 42-year-old stay-at…
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