You’re talking about 12 years of day care. America already has a crisis of kids getting poor educations at school and going home to uninvolved parents, ending u

You’re talking about 12 years of day care. America already has a crisis of kids getting poor educations at school and going home to uninvolved parents, ending up on the street. Homeschoolers don’t cause that. Unschooling does not mean kids stuck at home or on the street. Your parents probably could have hired that special physics teacher as a tutor to supplement his likely terrible teacher’s salary. I wasn’t especially rich raising my kids and I could afford tutors, classes, activities for them. There’s a big community of homeschoolers who pitch in together to fill in the gaps. I used to give free programming classes to kids, other homeschooling parents taught music, sports, math, etc. The biggest misconception about homeschooling is that the children are isolated and deprived of social contact and access to adults who can teach and mentor them. That may be true for people in rural areas, and it’s certainly true for religious fundamentalists who keep their children out of a society they view as dangerous or immoral. But there’s a big world of secular homeschoolers (in the US, at least) and if my kids wanted to study physics — not my expertise — I could have found tutors and classes for them. They could have attended college classes as teenagers in Oregon at least.