COSTA MESA, Calif.—The demand for homeschooling options in California is on the rise as parents express concern over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for K–12 students and Critical Race Theory entering into various subjects. Tom Pollitt, founder of the home school program Orange County Christian Schools in Costa Mesa, said parents have been increasingly unsatisfied with the public education system over the past year. “Parents all had an opportunity this last year to see what the kids were being taught online, and most of them didn’t like it,” Pollitt told The Epoch Times. Henny Abrahams pulled her 6-year-old son out of the Newport-Mesa School Unified District and enrolled him into Orange County Christian Schools, concerned about sex education and other subjects, which she believes should not be taught until later. “I don’t like the fact that my son who is half white [and] half Iranian has to, at some point, …