Homeschooling or sending your kids to private school is out of the current norm because the compulsory system is so expensive that most folks cannot afford to p

Homeschooling or sending your kids to private school is out of the current norm because the compulsory system is so expensive that most folks cannot afford to pay for both. My school taxes in NY are $3,000 for a middle-class house -- $2,500 less than tuition at the local church school. Before about 60-70 years ago, public school wasn't the norm at all. The enrollment in the public schools in my city was 40% less in 1960, when the school age population of the city was double what it is now. Why? Parents sent kids to Catholic schools. The Iowa tests are given to kids all over the country. I took them in Upstate NY. When I lived in NYC, we took a different achievement test... it was either a California test or a NYC-specific one. I don't have any kids, and don't have much skin in the game. I simply presented some information. But equating parents who want to exercise the freedom to educate their kids in a way appropriate to them as abnormal is offensive to any citizen of a free society.