As the new school year has begun, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has released the results of its latest tracking of public school children in grades 7-12.
These numbers represent the students who withdrew to homeschool in the 2021-2022 school year in response to a public information request from THSC.
That number was almost 30,000 students, down only slightly from the previous year at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
This data supports what THSC tracks as a historic number of parents in the modern era who choose to take direct control of their children’s education by teaching them at home.
As the modern homeschool movement continues to grow there are more and more opportunities for these families from online courses to micro-schools and everything in between. This development seems to track the new parental rights movement that has challenged school boards’ policies on sexualizing children via public school curricula and pornographic books in school libraries.
“This is not about banning books, as some would like you to believe,” Texas Freedom Coalition Executive Director Rachel Hale said in a video describing the auditing process and tools. “What this is about is removing pornographic, pervasively vulgar, and sexually explicit books from the reach of minor children.”
Again, this is not about banning or censoring books. It’s about removing books with adult content out of school libraries for children.
All of this leads to more and more parents choosing to homeschool their children and the latest TEA numbers indicate and, at the same time, stokes the increased support for parental choice in education. Governor Abbott has indicated he will call a Special Legislative Session(s) to take up that issue later this fall.
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Tim Lambert, THSC President
Tim Lambert, has been the president of the Texas Home School Coalition since 1990 and involved in homeschool leadership since 1984. He and his wife Lyndsay taught their four now-grown children at home for 16 years, graduating the last two in 2000. As the head of the organization for the leading home school state in the country, he is recognized as an authority on home education issues.
Tim has testified before numerous Texas legislative committees on issues related to homeschooling and often deals with state government agencies, including the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. He has also addressed such conferences as the Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers on the topic. He holds a B.A. in political science from Texas Tech University and is active in the political arena, serving eight years as Republican National Committeeman for Texas. Tim is committed to serving the homeschooling community and to protecting parents’ right to choose the method of education of their children.
As the new school year has begun, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has released the results of its latest tracking of public school children in grades 7-12.
These numbers represent the students who withdrew to homeschool in the 2021-2022 school year in response to a public information request from THSC.
That number was almost 30,000 students, down only slightly from the previous year at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
This data supports what THSC tracks as a historic number of parents in the modern era who choose to take direct control of their children’s education by teaching them at home.
As the modern homeschool movement continues to grow there are more and more opportunities for these families from online courses to micro-schools and everything in between. This development seems to track the new parental rights movement that has challenged school boards’ policies on sexualizing children via public school curricula and pornographic books in school libraries.
“This is not about banning books, as some would like you to believe,” Texas Freedom Coalition Executive Director Rachel Hale said in a video describing the auditing process and tools. “What this is about is removing pornographic, pervasively vulgar, and sexually explicit books from the reach of minor children.”
Again, this is not about banning or censoring books. It’s about removing books with adult content out of school libraries for children.
All of this leads to more and more parents choosing to homeschool their children and the latest TEA numbers indicate and, at the same time, stokes the increased support for parental choice in education. Governor Abbott has indicated he will call a Special Legislative Session(s) to take up that issue later this fall.
Thank you for standing with us as we work to Keep Texas Families Free!
Make sure you are signed up for our email and text messages to be ready to take immediate action to protect the parents and families of Texas.
Please sign our petitions to support these measures and get updates as parental rights reforms move through the Texas Legislature.
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Tim Lambert, THSC President
Tim Lambert, has been the president of the Texas Home School Coalition since 1990 and involved in homeschool leadership since 1984. He and his wife Lyndsay taught their four now-grown children at home for 16 years, graduating the last two in 2000. As the head of the organization for the leading home school state in the country, he is recognized as an authority on home education issues.
Tim has testified before numerous Texas legislative committees on issues related to homeschooling and often deals with state government agencies, including the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. He has also addressed such conferences as the Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers on the topic. He holds a B.A. in political science from Texas Tech University and is active in the political arena, serving eight years as Republican National Committeeman for Texas. Tim is committed to serving the homeschooling community and to protecting parents’ right to choose the method of education of their children.
