Parents are yanking their kids from left-wing public schools at an increasing rate and the problem will likely worsen in the country's most progressive cities.

After more than a year of hysterical COVID protocols that were clearly not based in science or data, progressive educators switched their focus to pushing dangerous and confusing woke curricula on captive young audiences. But the indoctrination agenda is backfiring.

Public school enrollment started a downward trend after a year of unnecessary COVID regulations. Though children are the least vulnerable to COVID, they were parked in front of computer screens for hours a day, isolated from friends and classmates and forced to mask when in-person class finally resumed. Students' academic achievement suffered as much as their emotional growth, with students underperforming on tests while growing increasingly depressed, anxious and angry..........