For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching
This is giving me the worst of vibes:<p>- options for people who don&#x27;t want to expose their children to out-of-family ideas, to perpetuate family biases<p>- a completely unregulated market for children to go to a &quot;school&quot; with a few other kids, giving them small classrooms, BUT, no teacher with specialization or educational background. Would be extremely hit or miss, with little resource if it isn&#x27;t working out.<p>- only for those who can afford it.<p>It just feels... it feels like people have completely given up on society and said fuck it, we&#x27;ll make our own.<p>This is sad. The real solution is not to homeschool. It is to force ALL kids, regardless of age, location, and income to be forced into the same school system. Want to improve things? gotta make it better for everyone.<p>Edit to those who say &quot;but mah freedum&quot; -- So far evidence shows that societies that force all people into the same system, regardless of income, end up having systemic positive changes because every member of the society is invested into it. Look at Finland, they only set one thing up: rules for how kids are allowed to be selected for schools. Everything else was because all the wealthy people wanted their kids to get benefits, so everyone benefited.<p>In the US school funding is dependent on local municipalities, so some places have excellent education, and everyone who can&#x27;t afford it is stuck with crap. This is why I dislike it. You either buy your way into a solid life, or you&#x27;re fucked. The audience here tends to be high earners, at least for middle-class. Most of America cannot afford 10k per year for schooling, much less the significantly higher cost required.