For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching
We are in our ninth year of homeschooling.  My wife and I attended private and public schools and grew up with typical biases against homeschooling, e.g. they lack social skills.  When we got married, we always assumed we&#x27;d send our kids to traditional schools.<p>What we learned, though, is that homeschooling has changed since we were in school.  Back then, it was a niche, and the sort of parents who chose to homeschool usually existed on the fringe (and probably lacked social skills themselves).<p>Nowadays, there are a lot more &quot;normal&quot; families who choose to homeschool.  Our family, and many others we&#x27;ve encountered, values and promotes social skills.  Our kids attend co-ops, play sports, and do other activities with their peers.<p>And because the demographics of homeschoolers have changed, so too have the ways that they homeschool.  It&#x27;s not very surprising that there is more collaborative teaching, where parents remain the primary educators, but certain subjects are outsourced to co-ops, online sessions on Outschool, etc.