Christian Schools See Growing Enrollments as Public Schools Decline: “The last two years have shown the advantage Christian schools have in being nimble in serving students and their families with excellence,” said Lynn Swaner, chairperson of Converge 2022, a conference that plans to welcome nearly 750 attendees in San Diego in March to focus on how to meet the needs of the growing numbers of students coming to faith-based schools from the public sector. Among the host organizations for the conference is the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), which, last year, saw a 12 percent increase in enrollment at its affiliated K-12 schools, the press statement noted. As Breitbart News reported in December 2020, ACSI released a report at that time that showed 90 percent of Christian schools opened the 2020-2021 academic year with in-person instruction as planned, despite the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The conference is announced amid the decision by many American families to reassess their children’s learning environments, with more opting to remove them from government-run schools in favor of homeschooling, microschooling, faith-based schools, and other private education venues. Many education bureaucrats blame the coronavirus pandemic for their plunging enrollment numbers, but parents are pulling their children out of government schools because of COVID-related mandates and the infiltration of Critical Race Theory (CRT) concepts and LGBTQ activist materials in curricula as well. Homeschooling is also on the rise in my state. Virginia has long been a pro-homeschool state. And having belonged to HEAV for many years as I did homeschooling off and on for my children, I get updates periodically from them. Both of my daughters, who are educators, have elected to homeschool and the kids have done fantastic, as a matter of fact my oldest graduated last year and is in college this year doing marvelously, her brother will follow next year. An exert from the article: Virginia Department of Education data from the 2020-2021 school year shows 59,638 students were enrolled in home education. That’s up from 38,282 in the year prior. Numbers from the current school year have not been finalized but, anecdotally, that trend appears to be continuing, according to theHome Education Association of Virginia (HEAV). — fair-use—-
