There are many ways to read this. Maybe the home schooling is a matter of desperate parents who learned they couldn’t trust their schools to stay open — parents forced to quit their jobs and do their best.

Or maybe three months of lockdown in 2020, plus another 16 months of tumult, have shown parents, in all sorts of ways, that their priorities were askew before now. Perhaps more mothers and fathers have decided to drop out of the labor force in order to spend more time with their children, including possibly schooling them at home.

As a result, there might just be fewer parents hiring nannies and filling day cares.

Heck, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats ought to be proud and take credit for this. In July, they launched a weekly child allowance of $300 for young children and $250 for older children. Surely, many mothers now getting $800 a week have been liberated from the need for a second family income.