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Ridgewood NJ, as summer draws near and the battle over parents rights heats up , many parents are actively seeking better educational options for their children next year. Across the nation, parents are eager to find learning environments that are more suitable for their children.
According to a recent School Choice Awareness Foundation survey nearly half of all parents have reported that one of their children will be attending a different school in the upcoming year. Black and Hispanic parents are taking the lead in exploring education options for their children, more so than white parents. Additionally, many young millennial parents (aged 18-29) are rethinking their children’s K-12 education options.
Although many are switching schools, a significant percentage (44.9 percent) of parents expressed satisfaction with their children’s education during the previous academic year. Nonetheless, many parents are still on the hunt to find better fitting educational options for their children.
These findings are from a survey that took place from May 17-20, 2023 and consisted 14 questions covering parents’ satisfaction and desire to explore education options. Respondents included 2,483 parents with school-aged children.
The seven top findings from a May 2023 survey of U.S. parents, conducted by the National School Choice Awareness Foundation (NSCAF), closely track those of NSCAF’s January 2023 survey, which found that parent satisfaction with education is not incompatible with a desire to continue exploring education options. NSCAF will release additional survey results, focusing on summer learning activities, in late June.
Key Findings
1. U.S. parents are more optimistic about their children’s schooling. As the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic recede, more U.S. parents said that, compared to the previous school year, their children’s schooling experiences were better this year. A plurality (45%) noted that their children had better experiences in school this year, while 34.4% said their children’s experiences were about the same, and 20.6% said that their children’s schooling experiences were worse.
2. Higher-income parents were the most satisfied with their children’s schooling experiences. Parents with higher self-reported household incomes were consistently more likely to indicate that their children had better experiences this school year. For example, 55.6% of parents with household incomes over $150,000 said that their children had better experiences this year, while just 35.7% of parents with household incomes under $15,000 said the same.
3. Nearly half of parents will send at least one child to a different school next year. Parents remain very interested in actively choosing the schools their children attend. Nationwide, 45.9% of parents said that at least one child in their household would attend a school that was different from the school they attended this year, whereas 54.1% said that none of their children would switch schools.
4. Among school-switching parents, many are still considering their options. The 45.9% of school-switching parents comprise parents who have already enrolled their children in a new school for next year (13.2%), parents who have applied for their children to attend new schools and are awaiting a response (8.4%), parents who are still actively considering what school to choose (16.9%) and parents who have made firm plans to switch one or more of their children to homeschooling (7.5%).
5. Parents want better educational environments for their children. Why are parents sending their children to different schools? Among school-switching parents, more than half (51%) want to find a better educational experience for their daughter or son, 30.5% have children who are graduating from elementary to middle school or from middle to high school and 18.6% are choosing new schools because they are relocating.
6. Black, Hispanic, and young millennial parents are the most likely to find new schools. Majorities of Black parents (60.6%) and Hispanic parents (52.5%) indicated that at least one of their children would go to a different school next year. Comparatively, 39.3% of white parents said they had a child who would be attending a different school next year. Parents between the ages of 18 and 29 were also most likely to say that one of their children would attend a different school next year (55.4%), compared to 40.8% of parents aged 30–44, 47.7% of parents aged 45–60 and 32.2% of parents over 60.
7. Parents whose children didn’t have positive schooling experiences are switching schools. Parents who said that their children had worse experiences in school this year as compared to last year were more likely to indicate that one of their children would attend a different school (64.2%) than parents whose experiences were the same this year as last year (31.9%) or better than last year (48.4%).
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We could put our daughter in a Ridgewood school for the tax money we will have to pay anyway, instead we are paying and traveling and committing time for a co-op. When she turns seven she may have the opportunity to particiapte in the Harrier Education Young Adult Business program. I expect that she will already be doing meaningful work by 12 and have a clear vision of and path to success by 18.
charter or private…
get ur kids out of the public school indoctrination camps