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So I have to say there are a LOT of parents who SHOULD NOT homeschool their children…
Let’s not forget there are college and highschool dropouts, and people who barely passed.
I say this without judgment and not to diss those who aren’t as educated. That’s not what a person’s worth should be in. It’s just not a good idea in many cases in the sense that having me play in the NBA would be total disaster. It’s nowhere near my skill set and I have no talent for it.
I do however, having been homeschooled myself, think that it can be done correctly. There are good and bad public, private, and home schools.
Edit:fixed typo >

To be fair, though, OP did mention hiring a private homeschool teacher….although I’m sure that would carry its own expenses depending on what job the parents have. Will say though, a lot of finances has to do with budgeting rather than college degrees. And a lot of trade jobs considered to be blue collar can actually cover quite a lot if managed correctly. Hiring a private teacher wouldn’t be out of the question >

A private teacher would probably be prohibitively expensive unless you're in a rural area where the teacher is desperate.  It costs me $900 per week just for two toddlers in daycare, with 5 kids per non-teacher.  I can't imagine what an actual private teacher would be. >

All you need to do is get a bunch of children together so one person can teach them. >

And then, if you're able to rent out a couple rooms, have a couple teachers there and separate the students by age group. >

Hell, maybe if you save up enough money you can buy an entire building that could hold multiple age groups and teach different subjects with varying difficulty with plenty of different teachers teaching big groups of them.. and at some point the community may decide it's of great public benefit and they would start advocating for us to use our taxes to pay for all of it so every kid could go and we would have an at least somewhat educated public... I should get a patent for this.. forget I said anything! >

This guy gets it! >

We come to this topic based on our experiences. We were in an excellent school district with great teachers. Our high school was one of the best in the nation. My children took courses in auto cad, and entrepreneurship. One had so many AP credits, she started college as a second semester sophomore. 
So the schools taught them better than I could have. But we were a two-career family, so home schooling was never an option. Plus, the thought of me teaching calculus…
I don’t know if OP is a teenager, but wages have stayed relatively flat for decades. Most families need two incomes these days. We searched carefully for a good school district, so that’s a better option for most families than home schooling. >

I'm also from Chicago. I was a member of Chicago Public Schools. They were hot garbage. I'd rather homeschool my kids than have them experience the BS I went through. >

Yeah I don’t live in Chicago anymore. We moved to the burbs for better schools. >

What suburb did your children go to school in, if you don’t mind my asking? >

Not my kids but cousins that lived in Buffalo Grove. My cousins were always telling me how well funded the schools were. >


Not everyone has the money for a few private tutor. 2. Parents can’t just stay home to teach their kids. 3. Even if they could, there would still be huge barriers to them being able to teach their kid in a way that actually helps the kid learn. >

Shouldn’t have had kids in the first place >

Um, no. You really think a middle-class family can afford a few private tutors? >

Just be rich! What's the problem? Ask your mommy and daddy got money its what I do! /s >

As someone who's been a mandated reporter on behalf of children who show signs of abuse, homeschooling would be a far worse hell for some kids.
Public schools offer resources (food, basic health maintenance, school materials like books) that some parents either won't or can't provide. If anything, mandating public education can help bring kids out of abusive households that they would otherwise be unable to escape from.
While no institution is perfect, I think that public schools get a bad rep because they are just that, public. We'd be singing a different tune if we got phone recordings of the abuse that takes place in some homes. >

I'm from a homeschooling background and I can confirm stuff about abuse. I know several kids who committed suicide in the homeschooling community because of it >

Were you able to socialize much? If not, did it have any affects on you? >

My problem being homeschooled wasn’t the lack of socialization but the lack of variety I was forced to have either one terrible friend or none. That one terrible friend ended up turning literally everyone in my life against me and making every social event I went to a living hell. I’d walk up to my group of used-to-be friends and she would look at me and ask “Why are you here? They’re not even friends with you” (actual interaction) and I had to either stay in a group where I wasn’t wanted or do the walk of shame. 
So naturally, I became a loner with severe anxiety and depression. About a year after I did make one good friend that I’m still friends with, but when I look back at my life… I realize how truly sad it was. I don’t know if I regret being homeschooled, but I do regret staying friends with toxic people out of necessity. >

It’s sad that society is pushing more towards finding a bubble and staying it in. Can’t trust strangers or teachers or police or anyone anymore. >

The post reads like someone from a small town being scared to go into cities because some news source told them that they would be raped, murdered, etc.
I'm just adding to the above comment about people sticking to bubbles and not leaving. >

I mean, cities are significantly more dangerous than small towns. I’m not afraid of cities but I don’t go unless I absolutely have too. >

Significantly more dangerous is a bit misleading. When real chance of injury is very small in city or small towns. Also, I am not sure the risk per capita is that different, specially if you account for gang related injury (meaning things that only happen to people in a gang). >

I’m not talking about injury, that can happen anywhere. I’m taking about crime. And you can’t just write of gang violence, I grew up in San Diego and there are absolutely innocent bystanders in gang violence. Bottom line is people are dangerous and more people equals more danger. >

Yeah, but per capita? Also, my issue is with the word "significant" it is ultimately misleading,  I have a "significant" higher chance of being attacked an eaten by a bear if I move out of the city.... it is not a lie, but it is misleading.... >

It’s not misleading at all. I would be surprised if someone got killed by a Buffalo in Hawaii. I would not be surprised if it happened in Yellowstone. You are significantly more likely to get killed by Buffalo in Yellowstone. I’d be just as surprised if there’s was any kind of gang violence here or even a murder. We haven’t had a murder in 20 years. >

How many people in the town? >

I don’t know man I’m not a census taker. I know where your going with this though. I don’t know when the last murder was but there hasn’t been one since I’ve been here (20 years) like I said above, bottom line, when it comes to violent crime people are your concern. If you are where there are more people your odds go up. I don’t care about “statistically” statistically my odds of getting shot in a random act of violence is little to none here, in Detroit that goes up, significantly. >

How hard is it to look up the population of the imaginary town you've lived in for 20 fucking years. And obviously you have little to no idea about how statistics work, because that significant increase in chance of being a victim of a random act of violence is a rounding error at best >

As a child, homeschooling was used to hide neglect and abuse in our “co-op”. They got to restrict what subjects we learned about, teach their version of history, and make sure we learned home making skills, all while keeping pesky government employees from finding out about the marriages of minors, avoiding questions about “punishments”, and the lack of a legitimate diploma made leaving very difficult. >

1) You’d have to be smarter than your kids
2) you’d have to be able to stand being around kids 24/7
3) I’ve got neither of those >

It's not even about smarts. It's about having the ability to teach children and teach them well. >

Homeschooling can be good but also used for pure evil. 
How many times have abusers yanked kids out of public school and claim “homeschooling” 
More over site and requirements for parents. >

better off hiring a home school teacher ok - and we’ll just eat air? Who’s got that $$$? 
Maybe we should use our taxes for schools instead of war or tax cuts for rich people but idk, I was publicly educated…. :/ >

What if we all pool our money together and hire some teachers to teach a bunch of kids. We can even get s building for them to go to >

OMG!!!! THIS IS SUCH AN AWESOME IDEA!!!  WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT THIS NOW!!!! >


Yeah, your child might develop some socialization issues if you don't take them out to interact, but that's better than bullying, getting assulted, and/or being shot.

It just delays all that until adulthood. Time and time again here on Reddit, we've all seen videos of grown-up toddlers. >

Heres the problem with home schooling generally the parents have to take some level in teaching and let me be honest. The average American myself included is to stupid to teach their child a good enough education. I for example could give them a great chance in science, history, or creative writing but outside of that id be no help at all. Also most people don’t take their kids out of school in the USA for good reasons more often than not its for control reasons. I cant tell you how many homeschool horror stories I’ve heard from people i met in college. >


You're better off hiring a private homeschool teacher, imo. 

Are you rich?  That is insane.  Who can afford that?

Yeah, your child might develop some socialization 

Might?

but that's better than bullying, getting assulted, and/or being shot.

Getting shot is still pretty rare compared to other causes of death. >

Seems dishonest to include suicide deaths in that number though. Suicides are not gun violence. >

And car accidents aren’t car violence, but they’re still caused by cars. >

what? no one said anything about car violence. it was just a comparison between car accidents and gun violence and the person above you said that most are caused by suicide, which is a pretty fair reasoning. if you want to do it that way then subtract the number of suicides from the total amount of gun deaths and also subtract the number of car violence from the car deaths. much different. >

Just go to r/HomeschoolRecovery >

Fr, it's so sad. So many people who have had their futures ruined and are unable to find jobs with the lack of credentials, are isolated with no friends, possibly abused or trafficked, and are adults who have the knowledge and experience of a kid in primary school. >

The problem is a lot of parents aren't fit to teach their children. >

I find homeschooled children to be socially awkward and the levels of education vary wildly. My niece was homeschooled and I feel incredibly sorry for her. >

It’s a trope. You can just buy the curriculum. I homeschooled myself for middle school (including math) and graduated top 5% of my high school and was accepted to an Ivy League college. Teachers are often not very good at their jobs and waste a lot of time. >

Ok dude you are not average or normal. Mr. Ivy League. If you went to an Ivy you would know that. >

I didn’t end up attending there, it was too far and too expensive. But I went to one of the top 3 public universities in the country. Also I am a woman just for context. >

Just saying you obviously smarter than the average bear. Just because you did it does not mean others can. You were better than 95% of the students in your high school. >

Huge market out there for affordable private schools with transparent staff that proudly display their curriculum and are not afraid to intervene in interpersonal issues between students. >

I'm not American, but I studied at home for 2 years. They were the most boring, uninteresting, horrible years of my life. I was talking very little to other people . When I returned to school, it was very difficult for me to integrate into the collective . I wouldn't say the learning was better, nothing significant
Personally, I was never bullied (nothing serious) in school 
If I had a child, I would send 100% to school >

It's funny how people who never homeschooled or researched it deeply, have such a negative attitude toward the idea! >

It's funny how people who never public schooled or researched it deeply, have such a negative attitude toward the idea!
Just a quick google search makes every homeschooling site feel culty, pseudoscientific, and a scam. >

I couldn’t have said it better myself. These are the exact reasons I give people as to why I intent on homeschooling my kids. >

As a homeschooled kid, I'm not that unsocialized though I'm not great with guys my age since I get nervous, but I think that's a me thing and not a homeschooled thing. >

I’m 40. I remember thinking my friends and family that were going to home school their kids decade and a half ago were out of their minds…they now have teenagers taking mostly college courses and are leagues ahead of my friends and family in public schools. >

There's a right way to homeschool and a wrong way to homeschool.

You can order homeschool curriculums that contain all the materials kids need to be up to national education standards. You can put them through the standard testing normal kids take and try to coach them for kid scores. And you can purchase them higher level books about particular subjects they're interested in.

Or you can do the "I'll teach them myself" quack style learning. The kind you see in Facebook mom groups where the 9 year old doesn't know how to read yet. 

There's not much wrong with the first if you can find ways to supplement their social life. But the latter is child abuse. >

Speaking as a fellow homeschooler who absolutely loved being homeschooled - There is major privilege that comes with being able to do this. 
Most homes are dual income, the world doesn't enable people to stay home very easily. Even hiring a private teacher could be expensive! If you are capable though, then I think it's a cool idea :) 
The social issue can be resolved if the parents care about it. This means driving your kids to their friends' homes, not being a helicopter, meeting people of all religions (or lack of), teaching them to meet people on their own and is an opportunity to even go beyond what school offers. Take them to the food bank, the homeless shelter, they should see reality and learn from it. >

This this this this this and this >

My third cousin, who I am very good friends with was homeschooled his entire life, and I’m honestly jealous. Public K through 12 sucked. >

Considering that 54% of American adults read at a 6th grade reading level, l don't think most people are qualified to homeschool their children even if they wanted to.
Also, homeschooling lacks a lot of oversight. There are no mandated reporters, so in the event of abuse in the home, what resources would children have access to to get help? How could we ensure that everyone is following the same curriculum and ensure the curriculum is being taught to a specific standard? >


How could we ensure that everyone is following the same curriculum and ensure the curriculum is being taught to a specific standard?

That is the worst possible approach to homeschooling. Public school curricula are garbage. Public school graduates are incompetent, ignorant, and 17% are functionally illiterate. That is what homeschoolers are getting away from and why they have massively superior results. >

You're assuming that I believe that there are no improvements to be made in public school curriculums or education infrastructure overall.
Just because there are problems with public schooling does not mean that homeschooling is a defacto better option. >

My kid is homeschooled and I’m a public school teacher. >

These are the only people I trust to actually educate their children at home >

The American school system has been slowly decaying for decades now and the negative stigma of questioning them  is so stupid.
Schools will let the children be harmed or even killed rather then admit fault and this isn't a case of "a few bad apples" this is standard for most public and private schools. >

The negative stigma of funding them is even worse. Don't forget the GOP puts forth candidates that literally want to abolish the department of education. >

As an educator I can tell you with absolute certainty, online schooling doesn't provide an equivalent level of education as in person. 
A top performer can do well. Others skate by. I'm seeing the aftermath from Covid schooling. It's not looking good. >

Covid home schoolers and true home schoolers are two different people. Covid home schoolers say their kids in front of a computer for 8 hours, argued with them to stay on task because not so shockingly, they were bored of their minds.
Online homeschooling only works if you work with your kid, and if it's only part of your curriculum. >

Guess my teaching degree was a waste of time then >

We always hear the argument homeschooled kids lack social skills. 
Yet we have a fk load of young people today, who claim to be introverted, suffer from anxiety, or some other social ailment, and most of these kids when to public schools... >

Thank you! This is me and everyone I no and I went to school all it did was break me down… I no others have better experiences but not me. >


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As someone homeschooled until high school--find a community of people who are also homeschooling their kids.  The socialization issues can be for real and if you're isolating your kid they're gonna feel isolated.  
Where I grew up there was sort of a community of homeschoolers, where there was weekly classes, weekly sports, etc.  But some of the kids I met there were really troubled, probably mostly from autism or something, but also from their parents being totally crazy and sheltering them to an insane degree.  
Public school isn't the best place for kids, but they've gotta get out of the house sometime early on, its really important.  I saw a lot of parents who projected their insecurities onto their kids and ultimately made them suffer for it. >

To be fair, you wanting to homeschool your child will probably provide better education than what your politicians want your child to have. >

The US is at it again >

I'd love to meet the planet these people live on where the country is filled with single income households. >

Propaganda. >

Homeschooling does also come with serious issues. at least one parent has to be available often, it costs money to get factual quality education material, and the parent homeschooling needs to have at least a basic knowledge of what they're teaching. >

The best part of online school is that in 4 years of having one of our kids enrolled we have not had one single fundraiser! :) >

Homeschooling seems like a great idea, until you remember something like 60% of American's function academically at the level of a sixth grader...
Blind leading the blind never ends well >


60% of American's function academically at the level of a sixth grader...

All educated at home then?
Wait a minute... >

Wanting homeschooling isn’t really unpopular these days. I know they used to try painting homeschooled children as weird but public education is mostly subpar in America. >

Public schools are essentially really cheap/nearly-free daycares. Not every parent has the ability to jump from paying (nearly) nothing in a year to paying for private tutors and other shit. And having a parent stay home with the child. 
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That said, ideally we'd have public schools that aren't unsafe breeding grounds of ideological indoctrination and all, but it seems like nobody wants to actually stand up to fight towards that end. So this is what we got now. >

I taught a group of kids during the pandemic. It was challenging but fun. We have fond memories. Unfortunately people aren’t in need of that as they preferred to go back to public school. Luckily for us my sons school is pretty good. So I don’t homeschool but I would if it were terrible. >

There is so much opportunity for public education to be exceptional in this country. God I wish capitalism didn’t touch education and we could all be smart together. >

Absolutely. Our eduction system is terrible. They always say they want to help, but they only make things worse for kids, especially in terms of self-esteem. I could go on and on about the rampant ableism and brainwashing that is going on in our school system. >

It's very privileged to assume all  parents can afford to have one of them quit to stay home with the child, have a village that can watch the child for them, are able to pay for private instruction like you suggest or are able to help their child with the material if the kids can't figure it out themselves or the online teachers don't get back to them quickly.  Then you have the issues of will homeschool be used to cover up neglect, abuse or just plain learning not actually going on due to neglectful parenting. All of which are issues that already happen with homeschool. Parents and kids were very much struggling with homeschool/online school during lockdown. It's not for everyone. >

Or, even more unpopular opinion, let’s force American law makers to fund and modernize our failing school systems. >

I think you spend too much time online and watching media that gets paid to scare you. >

FFS this post reeks of privilege. >

Sheltering your child doesn’t do as much good as u think. Your chances of something genuinely bad happening are pretty low. But your kid do what u want >

Not sending your kid to public school is the opposite of sheltering them. The opportunities for education are endless in the real world. School is not the only opportunity for a kid to be social, too. >

Private school is fine. The odds they are social are much lower >

And expensive >

And hiring a teacher to come to ur home isn’t? >

Who said anything about hiring a teacher? >

OP… literally said to hire a private teacher to come in? >

I'd home school kids, if I could pool it with a few other reasonable parents and if I had the time to make sure it was done right. The US public schools system, from the outside, looks to be fucking nuts: terrible academic attainment, bullshit ideology, teachers afraid to take charge, violence etc.
Mind you, I'm judging this on what I see in the media, which is kind of prone to highlighting edge cases.  I'm sure there are loads and loads of perfect sensible public schools with good discipline, good academics and a common sense ethos >

Thank you for recognizing that you're seeing the edge cases. Because you're exactly right, most public schools aren't great but they're getting the job done and not harming kids. Just the same as everywhere else. >


most public schools aren't great but they're getting the job done

If by that you mean "our PISA scores arent worsening at the same level the UK is" then yes, thats true.
If you mean "our average scores havent lowered every year since PISA scores started being tracked", then no, they have.
Schools in the US are, as a whole, getting worse year-over-year by every single metric used to track them in comparison to prior generations.  We are graduating more and more kids who are functionally illiterate and struggle with basic math, but yay they graduated so its all good i guess. >

My highschool went into lockdown last week due to a gun threat, its so fucking gross that that happened. The kid who was suspected was only 13. Ruined his whole career over a "joke". I wish that his parents cared more, because according to a few people his parents didn't care. America is crazy. You can't trust any schools here at this point.. >

At what point in typing that out did you figure the school was the problem in that scenario >

I was homeschooled from 1st-6th grade and was largely isolated. I wouldn’t recommend it. It made me VERY shy for a long time. I still struggle with it >

I was homeschooled from kindergarten to 5th grade. I'm still very awkward with people. >

The people who say this are usually ultra-controlling parents who don't want their kids to be influenced by any other POV than their own. >

We pulled my middle school daughter out of brick and mortar after 4 weeks. She’s a diabetic and the school was not interested in keeping her safe At ALL. One time ending up in a locker room with her sugar at 42….alone and disoriented…was enough for me. 
Modern public schools are largely shit. Their curriculum is shit. The way they structure the day is shit. After elementary school, I find it downright detrimental. The only reason my high schooler is staying in is because she wants to be around her friends. The education she is receiving is subpar at best. 
Conversely, my middle school kid does virtual school now and is thriving. My only hangup is the social aspect, but there are groups and activities you can get involved in. 
I agree with you. Too bad it’s almost impossible for all families to do this, because everyone has to work. >

99% of people are not even close to capable of being a teacher to their kids >

I can say the same for public school teachers >

The shite school system is  deliberate for some people/politicians. Betsy DeVos was pushing for private schools and to shake down parents for money. Schools can be made safer, teachers can be better equipped to teach, and students can be fed. 
Theres active political attacks to make schools as bad as possible to line the pockets of those who run private facilities. 
It'll be a future where ONLY the wealthy are educated to ANY degree and everyone else just needs to know how to press a button or flip a burger. >

I'm a teacher and I agree with a good amount of what you are saying.  There is a lot to fix in our public schools, but there's also a lot of good going on too.  I work in schools that I would not send my own kids to, but I'm trying to make 'em better!
That being said, keep in mind that you are only hearing the bad news.  There are no news stories about schools that are handling bulling issues well or schools that don't have any fights.  Negativity and panic sell and it skews our perception. >

I’m not sure how unpopular this is… it’s super common if you’re in the homeschool community. I’d never send my kids to school now. I’m a former teacher and made my exit. I know the headspace of teachers, and the bullshit rigid curriculums offered. I’m doing it my way. >

Ah yes, being homeschooled is super common in the homeschooling community, what a gem of knowledge I have gained today >

My point was when you realize there’s a community of people that do it. Within your own town. >

Teachers are quitting in droves.  The administrators don't care about the teachers' or children's safety or welfare.  The school system in this country is broken.  Get rid of the current system and privatize. >

Other than the concerns about socialization and cost (I have friends who home school so I hear the good/bad/ugly...)...I can't blame parents nowadays terrified to send their kids to school with the risks of guns.  The day my 4 year old had an active shooter drill, let's just say it gave me extreme pause. I choose to send my kids to public school but I can imagine a number of scenarios that would make me change my tune. >

Former teacher, and also former homeschooled kid (was homeschooled during junior high) here. Public schools are like this because of years of defunding and attacks from the right, as well as unwillingness to improve gun laws. Conservatives want a voucher system so they can more easily teach Abeka to kids and indoctrinate them into Christian Nationalism. To do that they have to fuck over and demonize public schools through media attacks, campaigns against levies, and refusing funding increases that allow for reduced class sizes and better resources for teachers and kids. >

There are definitely cases of sexual assault being covered up (Lauden county) 
I’m more worried about the political agenda >

Unfortunately the public school system is not looking great atm. Staff is demoralized and students are running wild. Hopefully things will turn around. >

I can somewhat agree, my school sent an email wanting kids to go, but if you know anything sickness travels. >

As a human it’s crazy to have children at all.  Especially these days and times >

I come from a family of teachers including being a former 5th generation teacher, and can assure you that there are degrees of Hell and homeschooling would definitely be at the top of my list. Good luck to those who undertake such a momentous endeavor. >

And everyone bitched when they had to keep their children home during Covid >

I have a better UO: school choice policies solve this issue without affecting public schools. >

If you had a kid in an area where home schooling would be preferable, I doubt you gave a fuck in the first place tbh. >

You want me to work a full time job and also do my own child care and education? >

you (presumably) stayed at home taking care of it all day everyday when it was a baby, why not teach it for only a couple hours a day? >

My wfh schedule changes to 6pm-10pm in April and I can’t tell you how many times this year I’ve thought about pulling my daughter out as soon as that happens so that I can homeschool her. >

Schools vary WIDELY from location to location so I think it really depends on where you are and your district.  Also charter and private schools are other options for some people (obviously). >

I had a buddy that works at a Prison to help prisoners get their GED, before that he worked with troubled kids, the kind that gets in a lot of fights and just causes problems. He said it was safer working in the prison because he was actually allowed to defend himself. >

Homeschool parents are, at best, overconfident in their abilities. It's a great way to abuse your kid out of sight of authorities too. >

I remember when I was young, after Columbine, I was fucking terrified about going to school. >

This is… really unpopular I guess? >

Isn’t homeschooling and private schooling kind of the whole reason public schools are going down the drain? Somehow the private schools are hoovering up all the funding that should be going to public schools? And it just kind of created a cycle? I really know nothing but I have watched all the public schools around here go basically down the shitter while seeing private schools pop up all over the place. >

teachers are forced and or are willingly teaching kids about satanism, its ok to be gay cuz western civilization said so, cuz apparently, theyre the standard for the world lol. they can tell my child that im abusing them if i say they are one of the only two genders that they are. yeah no. im not having kids cuz of this fucked up world. even if i did have one. he or she is getting home schooled. >

Those problems aren’t recent or new. They’ve been going on for a loooong time. If anything we’re more aware of them now. >

Hire a private homeschool teacher? Must be nice having that kind of money. >

We started homeschooling in 2020. It isn't at all what I thought it would be. With all of the craziness going on we felt it was better to keep our kids home. They ended up liking it better than public school anyway and they have good grades. There are programs that teach your child and you help when they are struggling with something. There are companies where they can take short classes online with other students. There are co ops that do field trips and school dances. It is very different from the picture of homeschooling that I had in my head. >

Can you give greater details on how you achieve this? >

Go back to roots,its not just America, it's not just now, school is just a fancy system, nothing special. before you could learn anything from books but it was not accessible easily. but now you have the internet, school, college are obsolete, just waste of time, employers need to stop lookin at degree and focus more on skills. >

Not all parents should teach their kids and it shouldn't be forced upon them. There should still be a public school for kids who's parents are on the absent side. If more people homeschool their kids, the funding schools get would go a lot further. It would also reduce class size, kids>teacher ratio would give kids better attention, better food, school services such as counseling and career counseling. >

Honestly agree. 
Hear me out, I teach in my free time. I make it a point to always give individual care to my students and ask what their interests are. 
School in the US operates like a factory line. I remember literally having 30 kids in a classroom. There is NO WAY you can give individualized attention. 
I teach my students more in 2 hours a week than the school system does in 40 and it's not because I'm a god at teaching. It's because they're interested and I actually care. Teachers getting paid barely minimum wage aren't willing or able to put that kind of commitment to 30 kids. >

I've worked with homeschoolers for years and yeah there are some families that are crud but I think some are crud in public school too. Are these kids going to turn out any worse because they were home versus public? I honestly don't think so. >

I started home schooling my daughter after kids in her kindergarten class were disruptive. She's already doing multiplication, reading, and writing and doing basic coding through an o line program. Plus, she gets to choose additional topics that she is interested in. 
I plan to get her into martial arts this summer for the social piece of her education. >

So many people think kids go to school to learn. Yes that is one facet but school teaches kids to work with others, face adversity, problem solve, and so much more that isn’t show cased. 
I’m sure your child will be smarter than average being home schooled. However the social building and communication skills you are robbing your child of is almost always not worth the trade off. 
School IMO is learning how to work with others first, and education second. 
As a software developer team lead. I can assure everyone here, I will hire the personable person over the experience person every single time. 
If they can’t work with others they are useless to me. >

This is a sad post for me. We live in rural Texas and the schools my kids are able to attend have numerous issues. We opted to do secular (non-religious) schooling online and in books. We travel, take day trips to museums, arboretums, etc all the time. My kids started out in public school and we switched when they were in and out due to Covid. Our days take about 1-3 hours depending on the topic and if we come across hardships (maybe someone is having an issue with their math, etc). We also joined a co-op and homeschool gym class once a week. I guess my kids are a little more sheltered in some ways but they have experienced so much more in other ways. >

Not all parents are qualified to teach to their kids >

You understand that a hand full of stories in a country of 350 million doesn't mean every school is like that, right? >

If I had kid and had to homeschool them I would be the one bringing gun.
You probably would have to be like 1% of population that both can spend everyday teaching your kid (not being able to work), not go crazy while doing it AND be good at it/ have enough knowledge.
Past like 10 years my kid would be bringing the gun. Imagine spending your teens at your home, learning with your mum & dad instead of with your peers. Always being watched by your parents. >

Homeschooling gets a bad rap, but it really depends on how seriously your parents take it. I know a family that homeschooled their kids. 1 is an actuary, 1 is an aerospace engineer, and the 3rd is a veterinarian. All went to amazing universities. >

As a non-american I used to think homeschooling was extremely close to psychological abuse. Not saying it is, but also I don't have a better word for it.
Never thought about it like this though. That homeschooling is the safe and best environment for kids is crazy. >

I don't think this is an unpopular opinion. >

It is on reddit >

Unfortunately, much (if not most) of Reddit does not mind shilling for leftist (“public”) education. If they were honest about the fact that they adhere to the political religion of Leftism and want everyone to adhere to Leftism, then interacting with them would be easier. >

I don’t want kids but if I did I’d go the hippie route and home school them >

I'd go full mountain man if not for my kids.. I sacrifice my desire to allow them to live in society 🤣 >

Mountain kids are worth it too, chase down squirrels for dinner >

My favorite meat is squirrel so if I could kick the kids outside to catch them for me that'd be so much easier. >

This is not unpopular.  SO many parents feel this way. If both have to work though it's next to impossible. TEACHERS HAVE BEGAN TO BELIEVE THEY KNOW WHAT YOUR CHILD NEEDS BETTER THAN YOU DO. Some sort of God complex has come over them >

Yeah I wanna homeschool my future kids but I don’t want to be the teacher. I would prefer someone to tutor them so they’ll receive an excellent education because there’s no way I can teach anyone math >

You just buy the curriculum. I homeschooled myself throughout middle school using a curriculum. Ended up graduating high school in top 5% and was accepted to an Ivy League college. You don’t have to be a math expert yourself. >

It's becoming more popular than you think. >

Best advise is to get kids out of government schools. Worst place for our children today. Teacher unions have destroyed our schools. >

I can understand why parents would more and more feel the need to do home schooling... but as someone who was home schooled from 3rd grade and beyond. It is an utterly lonely and isolating experience. I'm 25 now, and I'm constantly running into road blocks because of it, be it I can't apply for union jobs because I need high school algebra passed with a C (I only needed pre-algdbra to get my GED) or feeling totally inept with talking to and forming relationships with people my age. It breaks my heart to think about the experiences I missed out on, and it breaks even more that my neices and nephews are going to have to experience the same thing >

I'm sorry that happened to you, but that's not the case for all children. My child goes to a co-op homeschool. She even have friends who are in public school. >

I said this above in the thread as well but unfortunately since we made an alternative choice this thread views us as uneducated helicopter parents who are stunting our children for life. There is apparently no good way to educate and socialize our children other than the way our very capable government has laid out for us and any different choice will ruin our childrens entire life. We might as well send them into the firing squad now because they'll never be productive members of society. >

Seeing as one of the most popular homeschool curricula is designed by Ken Hamm, nah lmao >

There are plenty of curriculum out there that aren't religious. >

I'd wager that majority of home schooling parents do it to give the child lower standard of education, not higher one. Religions fanatics who want to teach creationism for example.  
Then there is the issue that lot is learnt in school outside of lessons when interacting with other kids. One needs to find way to fill this need. >

I think that was definitely the case until recently. There's a lot of secular homeschoolers now. >

Not until parents stop teaching their kids the earth is flat, that vaccines are dangerous, that medicine in general is dangerous, and that covid isn’t real…Seriously, these parents homeschool their kids and ‘teach’ this to their kids…
Homeschooling as a norm is not a good idea with these idiots around passing misinformation to their kids… >

Insane take to unironically put forth, "everyone should just hire private tutors for their kids," like we're all oil barons from the industrial age. >

You can want something even if you can't actually afford to do it. >

Yes. Of course we'd be better off just being rich. I don't understand the substance of what you're suggesting though. >


Teachers are scared of losing their jobs if they intervene in a fight because of terrible school policies.

Homeschooling isn't going to help the kids getting in fights at school. They'll just get into fights somewhere else. 

People like to often make fun of homeschooling, but it's more logical at this point than sending your kid to a public or private school.

How is it more logical?
It would be less logical for 99.9% of parents. Schooling often allows for both parents to contribute an income. Schooling allows children to socialize in their communities. 

I'm sure there are also stories of sexual assault being ignored or covered up. 

Children are probably thousands of times more likely to be sexually assaulted in their own homes or by a family member than they are by a teacher. 

Yeah, your child might develop some socialization issues if you don't take them out to interact, but that's better than bullying, getting assulted, and/or being shot.

No. The near guarentee of depriving your child of skills vital to healthy human development is not better than the absolutely miniscule possibly of extreme things happening in public. Under no circumstance would you apply this to any other area of life. 

The benefits of in-person schooling for children don't outweigh the cons at this point for the children. 

What cons? The handful of 1 in a million chance events you've named? Chance events that could happen literally anywhere? >

Bullying is extremely prevalent and causes kids to take their life all the time. Even if they don’t, it causes long lasting trauma and anxiety.  I wasn’t even bullied that badly but it still affects me to this day. So yes, if my child is bullied and wants me to homeschool them, I will.  I’ll shelter them for a few more years if I can. >


I’ll shelter them for a few more years if I can.

And you will have failed as a parent for being incapable of teaching your child how to encounter confrontation in their life. >

Ah yes, blame a kid getting bullied and their parents trying to protect them and their mental health instead of blaming the failing system and the teachers who protect the bullies. Sometimes kids are just cruel and the best way to deal with a confrontation is to walk away >

it doesn’t teach them how to healthily manage conflict and confrontation though, sheltering them entirely from the possibility of bullying is just asinine considering their social development >

People are going to disagree with this for political reasons first and foremost. 

Yeah, your child might develop some socialization issues if you don't take them out to interact

I think that's overrated, it presumes from the get go that a large public school creates a positive social experience, I don't see cause to believe why it would be. And a lot of social fuckups went to public school, and vice versa. >

Yeah, I kind of touched on that in another comment. >

Because schools are well-known for reporting everything that happens there 🙄 
How many times has a kid been punished for fighting back while their bully gets away with everything?  I have yet to hear of the opposite happening in any school for the past 20 years. >

And abusive parents are so well known for reporting themselves. >

There is like probably 97% fewer fights in school today than in like 2002.
You sound paranoid >

I guess it depends on where you live because where I live fighting in schools has gotten so bad they’re having trouble finding teachers >

I agree, at least not going to fight my child over attending a public school. I am little worried some math and basic writing skills are failing behind, but we are working in them, and he seems so well adjusted to this online schooling that it t worries me a little. No teenage angst that I have seen, and he just turned 14 >

I'm a teaching intern and I don't wanna do anything. Bc if I happen to be wrong (which there is always this 1% chance), and the kid happens to be a member of the minority group, my career is destroyed. >

Do you know how stupid most Americans are and you want them teaching others?Think before you speak. >

I have to agree, but I don't feel I'm cut out for homeschooling and I have a job that I need. >

My sister's high school isn't letting them use the bathrooms during passing periods or classes anymore and it's getting ridiculous. That being said public school provides resources for kids they can't get from their parents and gets them out of abusive households for a few hours. >

How tf would the avrage family be able to afford that. They would need to hire multiple different tutors because there's no tutor that teaches it all, and that would be expensive af. Homeschooling also limits their socializing since they're not around any other children other than their siblings (if they have any). I can already see the wave of kids with social anxiety and lack of social skills because they rarely socialize with anyone other than their family and tutors. 
Parents who try to teach the kids themselves instead of hiring tutors are also likely to fuck it up. Some parents never finished high school or just barely passed and are definitely not qualified to teach kids. Even parents who did pass high school and went to university aren't qualified to teach their kids.
Regular schools also introduce kids to other cultures, beliefs and opinions. They're not in an echo chamber. I can see there being tons of racist, sexist, and/or homophobic kids because the parents are constantly bombarding them with their beliefs, and they specifically hire people who think the same way they do. They can also tweak what they teach their kids to help further push their beliefs (history and literature).
This isn't to say that homeschooling is terrible. It's just that some people really shouldn't have 100% control of their kids' education. There are tons of people who have been homeschooled who turned out great, but that's not always the case.
Something else I would like to say is that for some kids, school is an escape from their home life. Not all kids have good, loving families, and school allows them to escape abuse, yelling, and arguing (sometimes at them or sometimes between the parents). It also allows teachers to possibly notice if the kid isn't doing too well emotionally or physically. >

Most children who are sexually assaulted are done so at home by close relatives. It is far more dangerous then schools. >

Conservatives have been trash talking public education since Brown v. Board of Education. They hate having an integrated society >

Agree. It's not even that we refuse to fund public schools and badly, badly fail in supporting teachers, we've created an unmanageable behemoth. If most people knew the amount of tax dollars even good schools get siphoned out of the budget for contractors, lawyers, lawyers to ( no lie ) negotiate contracts, and the laundry list of parasitic companies attracted whenever there's a tax dollar to call their own, it would get cleaned up in a big hurry.
Home school. And please don't get me started on the " but socialized " argument. Anyone remember school? Not a splendid example of socialization. >

A lot of people aren't qualified to homeschool their kids. (If you just want to keep your kid home so you can avoid science, you're nuts.)
But there is no research that homeschooling makes your kids awkward or socially inept, and homeschooled kids are generally more successful in college and life. >

I’m definitely homeschooling. Public school is atrocious and private school is just as bad. >

Homeschooling is inevitably going to create a shit ton of socialization issues and isolate kids which will fuck them up for actual real world interaction, you can't raise your kid in a bubble or else they'll be fucked for life. School gives your kid interaction with people of all different backgrounds and prepares them for the real world homeschooling does not do that, all it does is teach the most useless parts of schooling without the most useful parts of schooling.
and not to mention the impracticality of hiring a homeschool teacher, also no most kids are not going to get shot going to school, and also you can trust 90% of teachers >

My homeschooled kid goes to the Y, we are part of a co op farm, she does classes at the library and we do regular "field trips" monthly. She does errands with me and has learned how to interact with not only peers but adults and people from different walks of life. Her social skills are incredible and I dont see the same from some of (NOT ALL) her public schooled peers. There is a way to do homeschooling right and there is a way to do homeschooling wrong. To say socialization issues are inevitable is to speak out of turn but I understand your point. Unfortunately many religious groups and tinfoil hat families have created a bad name for homeschooling. >

I was fully prepared to disagree after reading the title, but this is far and away the most sane reasoning to homeschool I've ever seen. >

Not everyone has the money or time to homeschool their kids >

I was homeschooled and you have no idea what you are talking about. Parents are terrible teachers. >

Half of this subs post are just completely unrealistic ideas >

Yeah this is definitely unpopular lol. Never met a well adjusted homeschooled person >

Terminally American take. >

I've seen some people defend the bullying and such, as if it were a a literal "school of hard knocks". People are extremely resistant when it comes to change regarding raising children. Look at how people talk when you bring up spanking. 
That being said, homeschooling takes a lot of time. It's only really possible in a single breadwinner family, and that's extremely rare nowadays. I don't think we should consider schools a lost cause, but having homeschooling as an option is great. 
As to your suggestion of hiring a tutor, I don't know if that's really a thing (unless you pay exorbitant prices), is it? Either way, it sounds like private school with extra steps. I feel very lucky to have been homeschooled. >

I don't want any kid to be homeschooled because that is literally the most biased shit you can do to a kid.
Pretty sure most flat earthers and conspiracy theorists were homeschooled. >

It's better than introducing them to what you know will be the opposite bias in a public school >

What bias? That the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell? >

The fact that vaccines implant a microchip and that climate change isn’t real of course! >

You're showing your ignorance by believing that people thought vaccines were to implant microchips. That was a red herring launched early to discredit anyone who didn't want to take an experimental drug. >

Bro it was just a joke. >

It should be illegal to homeschool without going through the same process as a regular teacher. I was homeschooled and now have 0 life skill and 0 education. >

Email the principal about that >

I usually did well in school.   It would be intimidating for me to teach the curriculum.   I've met a few people that homeschooled that were not very intelligent. >

I get what you’re saying but I don’t agree with homeschooling for the most part. Many kids don’t get the proper education they need when they are homeschooled. >

Have you seen kids who go through the public school system?  They come out stupider than they went in. >

Yes, stupider. Were you, by any chance, homeschooled? >

“Stupider” is a real word, even though most people use “more stupid”. You were clearly proudly educated at public schools, and your schlepping naches in regard to statism absolutely shows. >

You're correct, "stupider" is a real word. I never disputed that. And yes, "more stupid" is much more commonly used. One could infer that, due to a lack of social cues, a homeschooled student would be more likely to use "stupider" than a public school student as a result. Henceforth, I asked if they were homeschooled in my reply. I'm curious how you read my comment in such a way that warranted insulting me. >

I can see that you were using “homeschooled” as an insult. I have become very aware of how people like you work, and I will continue to call out people like you. I also will call out your attempted gaslighting. >

Do you make a habit of insulting people, just to accuse them of gaslighting when it doesn't work in your favor? What do you mean, "people like you"? We've exchanged two replies, and you claim to know me? I feel sorry for you. >

Do you have kids lol >

I know this is only anecdotal, but every home schooled kid I knew growing up was socially and academically behind. Public schools aren't that bad. After all they're only a reflection of their parents and society as a whole. >

Upvoted for being such an awful opinion >

I know this is really unrelated, but I love the Big Mouth reference in your username >

Yes this is unpopular. That’s so stupid lol why would you want your kids at home all the time. That’s a recipe for resenting them. >

I honestly dont think most parents are capable of home schooling their kids. The average person is dumb as hell. >

Anecdote: my cousin was homeschooled and has grown into a very well adjusted young man. He was bounds above his peers, built and raved electric jalopies in contests and now makes steel art and is a welder by trade. Not the typical scenario, but it worked out for him, in his unique situation. Wish I could raise mine that way! His parents don't have much money, but had worked out a situation where they live in a barn they converted into a house in a rural part of Colorado outside of telluride, where my uncle worked seasonal construction. All they had to do was let the cows in and out to pasture in exchange.
That said, most people can't swing that lifestyle and certainly wouldn't be able to raise a child "free range", hunting and snow boarding in the backyard. Or at least, most of us wouldn't be willing to sacrifice the normal trappings of modern society to do so. >

You do realize the world is not a dangerous place, its safer today than EVER in history. You just hear more about everything going on due to social media and the Internet in general. Kids neede social development with others to be better fit for the REAL world not your sheltered helicopter parenting prison. >

The most important thing a kid learns at school is how to deal with other people. >

I was homeschooled, my husband was homeschooled. Both of us all the way up to college. Our kids will be homeschooled as well. >

Homeschoolers unite! >

Wow, not only is your opinion super unpopular, but also super wrong. 95% of people do not have the capacity, education or intelligence to homeschool kids. It would be an absolute nightmare clusterfuck.
Here's a better idea. Just fix your car clown education system like the rest of the free world. Jesus. OR you could just go with your braindead idea. >

Homeschooling should be illegal. It has no place in a civilized, open, and democratic society.
If you do not like the way your public schools are operating, then show up at a school board meeting and work with the community to make the changes that need to be made to make it better. >

i agree with this. the only exception i can see is if the child is special needs and a regular classroom is not able to accommodate them without interrupting the other kids' learning. 
too often home-schooling is used as a way to control kids. time and time again we get news stories about fundamentalists abusing their kids in their home and not allowing them to leave. and because there is no teacher or other kids/parents ever observing these children, they are left to suffer for years in an abusive household. absolutely criminal. >

Very unpopular, very uninformed. You’re falling for the propaganda the right has been using to defund public schooling. >

but this is a fear-based opinion! >

So spooky. 👻 >

Just send them to a private school.
Schools no longer ability track or expell students for equity reasons.
Since schools won't separate the good from the bad, parents will. The rest will be left behind in failing public schools, creating an even more inequitable public education system.
You'll have to pay for your kids to have a chance. 
In an effort not to separate students by ability or expell students, we've created a system where you have to pay for a child's education. >

Just send them to a private school?? Bro I have to drive 50 miles to buy groceries >

Looks like you deserve way more upvotes than you're getting. >

Problem is that most people are too stupid to teach. So many parents don’t believe in evolution, or they believe the Earth is flat or anything else like that. >

Hey buddy, more power to you if you can afford to actually give them a proper education, and not just produce some more YEC incels.
It would be better if more parents would volunteer their time and energy, maybe even a few extra bucks to the individual teachers/schools of their kids. >

Home schooling these kids would make ME bring a gun to school >

I’ve hired probably 500 or more people in my lifetime for customer-facing jobs in various levels of responsibility, and I can see with zero hesitation that very VERY few of the homeschooled applicants I had succeeded in these roles. I’m not worried about a teach breaking up some fight. I’m worried about children not knowing how to relate one on one, how to work in groups, how to handle success & failure, and not being exposed to the millions of different points of view they encounter in school. You’re gonna send someone who’s never gone to an outside school to college?!? Good luck! >

Average parent is way to fucking stupid to teach let's be real >

Upvoted. Warren Buffet here ignores literally one of the biggest issues with this country. Income inequality. >

Controversial not unpopular >

Kids need to have friends and socialize with others. If a parents can provide that along with money and time on the child's education then go for it.
But...
the problems we have are not because of school but parents who failed to teach kids on being resilient and problem solvers and how to behave in general. >

I yeah no. >

There were many things about my children's public education experience I was unhappy with but I am/was qualified to teach my sons AP Physics, AP Calculus, AP Biology, AP Statistics or teach them to speak a second language fluently and completely.  I just named a few of the advanced placement college level courses my kids took in the Spanish Immersion public school they attended. >

OMG I meant to write I "unqualified " to teach....I can't even post on Reddit.... >

You shouldn't be able to homeschool your child unless you got straight A's all the way through High School >

Agreed. I won’t let my children anywhere near today’s indoctrination institutions aka schools. Private school where I select based on their curriculum or homeschooling for my family. >

You underestimate how damaging not socializing is. >

this is classic "what I see online is everywhere" bullshit. The stories that make the news are the craziest stuff that's how it works. This is just classic biased thinking. 

I'm sure there are also stories of sexual assault being ignored or covered up. 

That's says it all right there. You are literally making stuff up to justify your fear. >

I've also been to school myself. People had weapons. A lot of the kids I knew smoked weed, drank alcohol, dated older men, made fun of openly gay students, were religious (in name only), hated athiests, objectified women, made fun of overweight kids, disrespected teachers, etc. One kid kept hitting me and the teacher told me to deal with it myself, so I did. Had to do it several times because the teachers wouldn't do anything. Not even enough sense to put us in separate classes until after things got bad.
I can also google schools around my area and see relatively recent news articles about students bringing a gun to school. >

Well, this is a dumb opinion I’ll give you that. >

The problem is that people are not set up to educate a child at home. I shudder to think what some kids are being taught. Q-anon nonsense, in some cases. 
That being said, I don't want my grandbaby going to school until something changes with the gun laws. Her mom is one of the people who should not be home schooling. 
So, we are thinking of paying for her to go to private school (secular) because these things don't seem to happen at those schools. 
It kind of makes me feel like an asshole to even say that, because I wish ALL families had that option. >

Ask the Turpin kids how that worked for them >

As someone who was homeschooled... Please please don't do that to your kids. >

Uh no >

This opinion isn't really about homeschooling as it is about "your child will get shot if they went to school".  Congrats getting the upvotes from the reddit hivemind. >

There are close to 100,000 public schools in the USA. How many of those operate every day without incident? >

Homeschooling by any and all margins is Failing your child when it comes to education. There is No Physical Way a Single Person or Pair of people can make up for a dozen or more indivisible perspectives, general life experience, and exposure to the societal environment.
Thus you are doing a disservice to you kids by actively put them on a lesser form of education & experience. >

That’s a lot of words to say this country needs gun regulation so children can be safe at school >

Mate no offense but one of your last posts is about how Shakespeare should not be taught in english. Don‘t homeschool your kids >

This is unpopular. 
Could yall IMAGINE some of these parents teaching their kids? Lmao. "Correcting" history lessons with their ignorance and bliss. I know a number of homeschooled kids and only ~3 of them even believe in dinosaurs...I'm not kidding. >

Private school is so worth the extra money. The negative impact on kids not going to school and having that life of dealing with people. Conflict, friendship, drama, learning, social bonding and just overall what comes with going to school makes kids too awkward when they miss it. The homeschool group will argue they meet with other home school
people and learn social skills but they are inside the bubble and miss what they don’t see. It stunts kids even if they don’t want to admit it socially >

I work with someone who was homeschooled her whole life and she is very misinformed on how the world works. >

I mean... I've never worked with a homeschooler and still had a dude try to tell me his daughter was born at 13 weeks and developed outside the womb in an incubator and was just fine and dandy. >

Abso-fuckin-lutely never not in a million years nope.
Parents are fucking stupid when it comes to teaching children and if we didn't have professional educators we would be even worse off than we already are.
Go to Facebook and find a mommy group. Read a few of their posts.
That's all you have to do to realize how fucked this idea really is.  Homeschooling is bad for the kid, bad for the parent, and just produces people who can't cope with real life. >

As someone with two friends who were homeschooled, no, no it is not. Not even today. >

I have yet to meet a well adjusted 20 year old who was home schooled. The lack of social interaction makes them friggin' awkward for a while... Everything probably works out in the end though. >

Socializing is far more important than course content. Even dumb people have friends and connections. Homeschooling is cringe af >

Socialisation for the kids are so important that this would never be an option for me. I‘ve found really good friends and relation in school that i wouldnt want to miss. I learned how to interact with people and how to approach them. 
And all this school things like getting invited to parties, having my first intimacy with girls and getting girlfriends, just having fun time around friends were really important to me. Ofcourse there are other ways to meet new people, but school had a lot of impact for me and made it really easy. >

yea i suppose if you want your child to be socially stunted and not become educated and tolerant by being exposed to children of other backgrounds/religion/race/ethnicity.
the only people i see homeschooling (in america) are religious crazies that are obsessed with controlling what their children see/hear/learn about. they think that if their kid learns about gay people, their kid will turn gay. these people should not be homeschooling. in fact, it's should be a crime- child abuse/neglect. >

Lol no.
Education at home will stunt a child’s growth. Kids need exposure to life’s good and bad. The social participation is worth the risk. I believe it was the best thing for my kids. Both are grown and have healthy lives. >

My cousin was “home schooled” because of covid vaccination requirements, the last time I saw her she was about to turn 13 and couldn’t add 15+15 without using her fingers. broke my heart, I share your sentiment on schools being unsafe though. >

God, please do not encourage every single person to homeschool their kids. Most adults are morons, and that’s how you end up with kids who cant read or write, or do basic math, because their parents dont like it. Homeschooling does NOT work for many people. >

Homeschooling sounds great until you meet an adult who was homeschooled as a kid lmao >

I have met homeschool children and they seemed normal to me, everyone is different depending on how sheltered they were. >

Nah, I refuse to be scared of the world as a whole like you. Your house could catch fire as you sleep and kill you. Someone could break into your home and shoot you dead. Or, more likely, you can sit on your couch until heart disease gets you. It makes no sense to be that scared of the world and it sounds like a miserable existence. >

Anti-vax people would like you. >

Terrible focus on the standard of education in pretty much all aspects from the curriculum to the environment. Hypermaterialistic society that exposes children at a young age to social media that teaches vain ideals. Terrible nutrition. Nearly unrestricted access to guns. People who honestly shouldn't have kids having the most kids. Etc. >

Firstly, I'd say upwards of 80% of households can't afford to do homeschooling at all. Probably upwards of 95% of households couldn't do it effectively.
Homeschooling isn't the thing you think it is. It's not just school, but at home. Schools in America don't really serve their educational purposes very well, so the benefits are social. And those "some socialization issues" cannot be made up for. 
I was homeschooled k-12. I'm fairly happy with my education but I have developed all sorts of serious mental health problems because of it. And I wasn't even particularly isolated. I'd have extracurriculars pretty often, as often as they usually are, but I've had issues with independence, with social cues, and even pretty bad anxiety issues. All of those issues either stem from or were made worse by homeschooling. 
I get it. The public schools in the us suck. But homeschooling is not the solution here. >

I was wondering about that. 
If you can afford not to work and to educate your kid(s) for a good part of the day, why not get a job and send your kid to whatever private school you can afford?
Even strip mall / office park learning centres that grant credits seem likely to address all of the issues OP has. 
Plus, aren’t there online only learning options anywhere for OP to take advantage of?
I find it hard to believe many parents would think of 4 years of high school in however many disciplines as something they’re definitely capable of teaching or supporting in a way that would ensure their kid’s success in college etc. 
Dunning-Kruger Effect? >

Yes, I'd much rather have kids educated in a closed environment by an uneducated person. Who would want their kids assimilated into society and taught by a licensed, educated professional? >

Stay out of liberal shitholes and pay for private school >

Lmfao because we all know Kentucky is the beacon of education. It’s not about politics. >

You’re gonna end up with a bunch of emotionally stunted kids who are significantly behind their peers in emotional development. 
Poor kid is going to grow up a dweeb and be in for a real surprise come college. If the kid is even educated enough to make it to college.
Don’t doom your kid. >

You cannot trust parents to properly teach their kids. >

silly question, but do you actually have kids?
or is this some opinion you formed based off reading an article online?
because your post has a lot of "theoretical" points behind it. but nowhere do you mention how the reality of the situation applies to your own kids. >

I like this unpopular opinion because it is so very, very privileged -- quintessential American post. >

It’s a lot harder to teach kids that people think. Unless you are a trained teacher, leave the teaching to the professionals. >

Homeschooling isn't allowed at all over here in germany but would have many fans >

What gym are you going to lead at home? >

I think that it has a lot more to do with the parent lacking the time and money to get all the homeschool stuff set up. 
Also, there's a lot to be said for socializing.  I have a young son (my only child) and he gets really lonely sometimes.  I take him to the park and he tries to interact with the other kids but they have their little group and don't seem interested in him joining. It breaks my heart to see and it's even worse when he tells me he's lonely. 
My son is about to turn 5 and I can't wait for him to go to school and start having a regular group of other kids his age to interact with throughout the week.  I think it will really help him.  If I was planning on homeschooling him I'd be worried about the impact of long stretches of no social interaction.
There's always the risk of bullying, assault, or a school shooter.  Those things are also on my mind.  The school shooter scenario is of course chief among my fears.  Unfortunately there's no way to make that any easier to deal with.  Bullying is a concern too but my son is going to be one of the bigger kids and he's pretty ruthless with his words so I'm more concerned with him being the bully rather than being bullied. >

Sometimes I honestly feel this way when I’m really sad about the world but you could potentially be robbing them of experiences they’d rather have. my sister’s best friend is basically another sister and they met in the second grade. it’s possible that really great things are on the horizon and we’re just too blinded by what’s at the end than underneath >

Sorry, I took some time to write a response and realized that the amount of effort that I put in isn't worth the responses I'd get.
If you don't realize the inherent flaws in online schooling, than there is no evidence I can provide that will make you realize otherwise.\
Most parents are NOT qualified to teach, most parents can't hire tutors that are qualified to teach. If you happen to be within the top percent that you can get tutors of quality that can help your child achieve better than public schools teachers, you probably already have you probably already have your child in a private school to take advantage of your monetary privilege. 
But you know what, the great thing about America is that you can do what you want. Go, home school your child, if you succeed, awesome, because teachers want the youth of America to succeed. But the unfortunate truth is, the majority of Americans don't have the financial means to help their child to succeed. >

There's no way I could do it. I'm not that good at teaching , I don't have the patience for it, and I have to go to work. I also have an extremely low evaluation of homeschooling. You don't get socialized, get a good education, or get exposed to any other cultures. Homeschooling shouldn't even be allowed. >

I'm 29 and starting to lax the whole being careful during sex with my girlfriend. Talking with other guys my age and people who just had kids, there is a push for more home schooling, even in small towns. Like I will not be putting my children through public school because of the level of teaching they get. I'd rather my student be social stunted then bad a math and science. 
(My mother is a teacher and talks about how most younger teachers don't instill basic math skills) >

It's almost like social media is deliberately highlighting isolated incidents in an attempt to make it look like the rule, rather than isolated incidents.
I think you will find that for the vast, vast majority of students, they have good teachers in a good district where they learn in accordance to the standards and go on to success.
For the few exceptions to this, I bet the vast vast majority of those can be solved by community involvement and perhaps voting out an official or two.
Then we get to the social media disasters, which almost always fall on one exceptionally bad individual's head.  Get rid of that individual and you're fine.
Edit - nothing wrong with homeschooling, unless you are doing it for political indoctrination, which seems to be all the rage these days. >

Many parents can’t or won’t teach their children the skills and knowledge they need to succeed academically. This can be seen with what happened with elementary and middle school children during the pandemic. I worked in childcare at that time and those kids were not able to retain most of that vital information, even with tutors. It’s because they need an organized educational setting with a clear hierarchy and schedule (like teachers and principals). It also didn’t helped that their parents were either unable to or didn’t want to put in extra time outside of the daycare center. This problem was only exacerbated by situations where kids were stuck at home bc they didn’t have a 3rd party childcare program to specifically focus on schooling and socialization with other kids (which is where I worked.) 
Not only is public school useful for academic and social growth, but it also serves as an avenue to expose the potentially toxic environment they are used to living in at home. It is through socialization that we are able to break the bad habits that we inherit from our families. I didn’t even realize that I came from a toxic and abusive household until the end of my high school career bc of the friends I had around me and the support they were able to give me. Because I came from a wealthy family (for our area) and my family was doing a lot for the community via leadership and politics, I thought that the batshit crazy stuff my parents would do to each other and suck me and my brother into was normal when it was really bullshit. I owe that realization to my high school friends. If it weren’t for them, I’d probably still be lost in the sauce to this day. >

The increase in WFH is only lead to an equal increase in school from home. >

Definitely depends on the school district with most of what you’re complaining about. You should look at other options >

Many, many parents are not qualified to teach in lieu of actual, trained teachers. 
I would guess around 1/3 of the parents I see in my district’s FB groups have very poor English skills. They can’t even spell words correctly with spellcheck, but you want them to teach? >

okay yeah but also as AMERICANS WHY ARENT WE FIGHTING HARDER WERE MOT FIGHTING HARD ENOUGH FOR OUR FUCKING CHIRLDEN THIS HAS GONE ON WAY TO LONG AND ITS FUCKING BULLSHIT DO SOMETHING AMERICA >

Private school and private tutoring are expensive and your average American likely can't afford that 
I also don't think I'm a qualified teacher. I want my children to learn the basics and fundamentals from someone actually qualified. 
Public school may not be the best option but it is the most practical >

The social aspect of school is something that can't be recreated at home