The problem is that homeschooling so often has lack oversight (as do private schools). There isn't always someone there making sure the kids are learning what t

The problem is that homeschooling so often has lack oversight (as do private schools). There isn't always someone there making sure the kids are learning what they should be learning nor that they are getting together with other kids. And you wind up with a few kids that do really well and others that struggle with science and still others that just don't get the help they need with stuff. It is easy to overlook a learning disability at a young age when you aren't trained to look for it. We don't even have a program to test parents on the material they are teaching. In a perfect world, parents would have to pass testing a level or two ahead of their lessons and we'd have more short, standardized tests to make sure kids were learning what they should (no skipping out on sex education or evolution, for example). Short, meaning once or twice a month for 15-60 minutes, depending on a child's age in addition to something akin to finals for older students.