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  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.
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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…