Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative
I honestly don&#x27;t know how to feel on this.  At some level personal experimentation is a wonderful thing that everyone should consider.  I am personally terrible at it, but I feel that is because I wasn&#x27;t taught to be rigorous; which is ultimately what is needed.<p>However, I am also convinced that schools serve two real purposes for kids.  1) To push them further than parents think they should be pushed, and 2) to socialize them.  (Which, really, is just part of 1.)<p>Ignoring all of the advantages that schools have -- mainly, more experience than makes sense -- even &quot;bad&quot; teachers are almost guaranteed to be better than a given parent. Because of their experience.  They will have seen more kids than I can comprehend.<p>But back to my points.  Even if I was somehow a better informational teacher than the ones at the school, I can not be a better teacher than their peers.  Building healthy peer relationships is tough.  As a parent, you think &quot;nobody that will hurt my kid.&quot;  However, I am not sure that is right.  What we really want is &quot;nobody that will unfairly hurt my kid.&quot;  And even then, we want peers for our kids that will grow with them.  So, really, it is &quot;nobody that will convince my kids to repeatedly hurt others.&quot;<p>And this gets to the crux.  Building a peer relationship for kids when you deprive them of diverse peers is nigh impossible.  And if you have a reasonable set of peers, you are really just in a private school; not a home school.<p>Privates schools are not bad.  At least, not something I want to vilify.  However, I want my family to know and be a part of the community.  Not a separate bubble within it.  Weighing that against them having a &quot;quality&quot; education is tough.