If the last few enrollment reports from the Kenai School District are any indication, correspondence and homeschooling appear to be the future of public education.
Earlier this month, the district reported that its overall student enrollment had plummeted to just 7,971 students. That represents a loss of more than 1,000 students over the past dozen years.
While most schools reported rapidly declining enrollments, the district public correspondence program continues to surge and now stands at 1,311 total students, more than double the size of the second largest school – Soldotna High.
In fact, Connections, which facilitates popular homeschool programming for area families, now accounts for nearly 17% of the total student population of the Kenai Borough.
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Meanwhile, traditional brick and mortar schools like the three largest high schools in Homer, Kenai and Soldotna are in the midst of a massive decline. Combined, these three schools missed their latest spring enrollment projections by a total of 123 students.
Overall, the spring enrollment report was 174 students below projection.
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Any Normal parent knows this, public schools are horrible. These public schools are for parents who don’t care about their children.
The only way for parents to reform Alaska’s education is by quietly leaving the public school and homeschooling.
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Something for Alaska Homeschoolers Do. Not. Get dependent on State Homeschool allotments while the money is available. Be prepared to cover your own homeschool expenses. Because taxpayer money can always be reduced and taken away. Other people’s money is not your’s.
Homeschooling is family friendly, flexible and successful while also giving parents more autonomy in guiding their kids in a better direction with truth and a moral foundation. Sadly for decades the mortar has been crumbling in the ps (turned bs) system and any attentive parent would consider home schooling as a solid option.