In this set of survey results on school preferences and thoughts from 2016, we get a pretty clear picture about who is choosing, what they are choosing, and to a limited extent why they are choosing it:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/schoolchoice/ind_08.aspMy favorite stat is figure 8.5 in which we see that 54% of parents with kids in assigned public schools were very satisfied with their schools, while 77% of private school parents were satisfied. Individual details follow.
This compares to the 55% of public school parents satisfied and 80% of Christian school parents satisfied from the Herzog survey. Obviously the language is slightly different, but the NCES survey also is not using a quite so preselected population for the private school parents.
Last point that I made in my truncated post:
The 25% had schools not close vs. 8% had schools not close fails to consider two points as presented by Mr. Graves:
1) There is no reason to believe that school closures were worse for the kids overall than not, even granting that education was delayed for many kids. Yes, worse for some kids, but better for others, as has been amply demonstrated - and safer for families.
2) The LAWS were different in different places. Not everywhere that shut down their public schools even tried to shut down their religious schools. Somehow, painting that as a problem with the schools seems asinine.