We have entered the age of homeschooling. What this signifies is something of a Rorschach test, but there’s no debating that it’s happening.

The number of homeschoolers in the current school year is up more than 50% compared to five years ago, according to estimates by the Washington Post, and the vast majority of pandemic-era homeschoolers seem to have stuck with it. That means more than 2 million, and possibly more than 2.5 million, children are being homeschooled now — more than are enrolled in Catholic schools nationwide.