Florida leads the nation in having the MOST homeschooled children of any US state as Gov. Ron DeSantis enacts 'Don't Say Gay' law, bans books, and outlaws African American history courses

Florida has nan astir homeschooled children successful nan US, pinch Tampa unsocial having much than 10,000 students being taught astatine home. 

Homeschooling has seen a surge crossed America, making it nan fastest increasing shape of education, data compiled by nan Washington Post reveals. 

Nine of nan 10 schoolhouse districts pinch nan astir homeschooled children were successful Florida. 

In Hillsborough County, 10,680 children were homeschooled astatine nan commencement of nan 2022-23 schoolhouse year, marking a 74 percent summation since 2017. 

Researchers reason this whitethorn beryllium down to ample schoolhouse districts arsenic good arsenic politicized restrictions astatine nationalist schools. 

Ron DeSantis has drawn nationwide attraction for banning books successful Florida's schools that see references to sex.

The Republican Governor's 'Parental Rights successful Education' law makes it easier for parents and teachers to situation a book's contents, meaning that they tin beryllium removed from bookshelves wrong 5 days and are reviewed by nan schoolhouse district.

Republican decisionmakers person claimed they passed this rule to make judge pornography and books that picture intersexual activity are kept from children. 

But critics reason galore books are wrongly rejected aliases constricted to definite property groups, specified arsenic Shakespeare's timeless classics.

School officials successful 37 states person attempted to restrict astatine slightest 874 individual book titles successful nan first half of nan 2022-2023 schoolhouse year, according to PEN America.

DeSantis has besides faced backlash for his 'Don't Say Gay' law passed past twelvemonth which has fixed nan authorities nan powerfulness to restrict LGBTQ content. 

The rule requires teachers to region books deemed inappropriate for children by blimpish parents and schoolhouse boards.

Critics spot nan rule arsenic portion of an effort to limit chat astir difficult questions astir title and sexuality successful nationalist schools.

Furthermore DeSantis controversially blocked an Advanced Placement people connected African American studies, arguing it amounted to captious title mentation 'indoctrination'. 

DeSantis' imagination for nan authorities - wherever he says 'woke goes to die' - includes a monolithic attraction connected acquisition and parents' authorities and a prohibition connected nan school of Critical Race Theory. 

In nan 32 states pinch comparable enrollment figures, nan number of home-schooled students accrued 51 percent complete nan past six schoolhouse years. 

There are now betwixt 1.9 cardinal and 2.7 cardinal home-schooled children successful nan United States, The Post estimates. 

Some experts reason that nan emergence successful homeschooling is origin for interest fixed the lack of oversight successful nan schooling of millions of children.

Most homeschooled students, including those successful Florida, don't person to return standardized tests.