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

Students and parents arrive masked for the first day of the school year at Grant Elementary School in Los Angeles on Aug. 16, 2021. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

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.