Faced With Mandates, Ideological Education, More California Parents Now Homeschooling

COSTA MESA, Calif.—The demand for homeschooling options in California is on the rise as parents express concern over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for K–12 students and critical race theory entering into various subjects.

Tom Pollitt, founder of the home school program Orange County Christian Schools in Costa Mesa, said parents have been increasingly dissatisfied with the public education system over the past year.

“Parents all had an opportunity this last year to see what the kids were being taught online, and most of them didn’t like it,” Pollitt told The Epoch Times.

Henny Abrahams pulled…