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  And parents who are educated themselves
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  Because its wrong. 
  A lot of studies show homeschooled children have trouble socializing and their education is pretty much directly tied to whether or not their parents hired an at home teacher. >
  
  My first thought is that homeschooling success is largely dependent on the parents… their commitment to it, their own level of education, and understanding of the subject matter. If you don’t hire a home teacher and are truly doing it yourself, if you don’t understand the material how can you teach it to someone else and hope they understand it… >
  
  I was going to say, I imagine there's a bias if such research exists since homeschooled kids are often from homes where the parents are passionate about teaching, or are/were teachers themselves. They're also likely affluent enough in order to afford to have a SAH parent or hire an at-home teacher, thus we can extrapolate that they are likely well educated themselves if they can afford such luxuries. The majority of the populace is not that well off or well educated to teach their own kids. Just look how "smart" the average population is and we were all taught more or less the same thing. 
  If you allowed parents to make the choices about what to teach their kids, there would be no equality/consensus in what is taught and you would have a world full of extremely varying education levels with no standardization on education. 
  Then the only kids in public schools would be ones from poor families, which would be underfunded and treated poorly due to their lower status causing even greater social divisions. Education needs to be free and fair in society if we want a chance of any equality. >
  
  Having done the homeschool thing for a bit, I disagree. I think the majority of homeschool parents are choosing it for religious reasons. They often do not have any teaching background. They do not tend to be affluent. Affluent parents send their kids to private schools. They tend to be middle or lower middle class. There’s also a subset who pulled their kid from public school because they have a special need and didn’t feel the school was meeting that need. >
  
  Yep, for every "dedicated ex teacher" or whatever makes them competent and involved (good on them) there 10 families homeschooling because of their cult. >
  
  As a formerly homeschooled student- homeschooling works great only when the parents are diligent about making sure the kids are actually learning and when the kids have regular assessments and testing. My parents truly went above and beyond, and I had a great experience. Not all homeschooling families are like this tho. And to be fair-public schools also only “work” when they have proper funding, good teachers, and parents are diligent. >
  
  In addition it requires the kid to be motivated and curious.  It can be absolutely awesome.  Usually it is not.  I also think it works better at lower levels, and can be tough in high school >
  
  There are actually a lot of programs for homeschooled students to take AP courses, science labs, etc during high school. I did this and I also took classes at a local college when I was just a teenager, which lowered the number of credits I needed when I started my first degree. Altogether a GREAT experience-10/10 recommend.
  I never would have been able to do either of these if my parents hadn’t actually taken the initiative to learn, or if they couldn’t pay for them, or if had to work multiple jobs. I think money is a big reason public schools need to remain a big option. >
  
  One of my old coworkers actually had her son take college classes at the community college over summers, as they didn't have a GED requirement to attend classes. He ended up graduating high school with an associates degree along with his high school diploma. >
  
  That would require an economy that doesn't often need both parents working full time jobs. >
  
  And parents who take education seriously.