 Yeah, government schools, there's a new report out by the Urban Institute that titles where the kids went. So what happened during COVID is that over the two school years following the pandemic, really during the pandemic, 2020 and 2021, K through 12 enrollment in schools fell by more than 1.2 million students. And the question is, where did these kids go? And of course, we know why this happened. This happened because public schools closed and it happened because public schools, many of them insisted on little children wearing masks, absurd and ridiculous. It happened because parents suddenly discovered what their kids were learning or as the case may be, not learning and found alternatives that were better. So there was a really awakening, a real awakening among parents, I think during the pandemic to the realities of what government schools were teaching their kids and to the realities of what was going on at government schools. And a lot of parents took their kids out. So in the 2021-22 school year, private school enrollment was 4% higher. So quite a few parents moved their kids into private schools while homeschool enrollment was 30% higher. Now, of course homeschool started with a smaller base, but still 30% in one year is huge, humongous. That is a massive increase. So a lot of parents decided that they're better off keeping the kids home and teaching them at home than they aren't sending them to school given what they're being taught in school or given the fact that schools are closed or given the fact that schools require their kids to have masks on, which is barbaric to say the least. So the growth in private school enrollment was particularly large in kindergarten and early elementary grades. I think that's where in particular the mask mandates and the closures were super ridiculous. And where private schools, many private schools stayed open. DC and 21 other states where you could get data. So homeschool enrollment rise dramatically. In North Carolina was the one where you saw the smallest rise in homeschool enrollment, it was only 8%. But listen to these numbers. In Florida homeschool enrollment rose by 43%. In New York, New York homeschool enrollment rose by 65%. In Pennsylvania by 53%. These are astronomical numbers, amazing numbers. And yeah, I mean, this is phenomenal. So during the pandemic, the school age population of the U.S. also shrank. So part of the 1.2 million students not going to school is that just fewer kids, just fewer kids. But what is interesting also is if you take into account the number of homeschooled kids and if you take into account the number of private school kids and you take into account the shrinkage of just the number of kids, there's still a lot of kids missing. There's still a real puzzle as to where the other kids are. For example, between 2019 and 2020, 2021-22, in California, K through 12 enrollment fell by roughly 271,000. Some of these losses can be attributed to corresponding declines in the state school age population because people leaving and because people having fewer kids. Some of it can be attributed to people enrolling their kids in private education or in homeschooling. But that leaves 150,000 kids that are unaccounted for. That is, there's still a whole of 150,000 kids that are either just not going to school and nobody knows about it and nobody seems to care or that are being homeschooled without registering with the state or having left the state without being tracked. But there is a real shortage, for example, in California, but this is nationwide. There is a big gap between the number of kids that are accounted for and the number of kids that are supposed to be accounted for. So kids in the United States from schools have gone missing. But this is also, I think, more of an expression of the lack of faith and lack of trust that American parents have in our government schools. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.