There are times when homeschooling is absolutely the right choice. For example: I would homeschool my child if the right circuits close and he turns into a pro

There are times when homeschooling is absolutely the right choice. For example: I would homeschool my child if the right circuits close and he turns into a prodigy aiming at a PhD by 18. Similarly, I can imagine its the right choice for children with specific disabilities which the school district simply can't serve adequately. I've chatted with a black gent who said if he had kids, he'd homeschool, because of the heavy racism in schools that he experienced. That's definitely a variable that has to be solved for too. I would also homeschool (before moving to a new school district...) if the school district decided that Zoom school was appropriate for children barring specific acute crises. =) There's probably a very nice PhD dissertation on the atomization of US society and how modern homeschooling both is an outcome of that social drift and, in combination with a sufficiently atomized poor socialization of the specific family, produces poor outcomes. I reckon we had probably close to the best-case academic outcome. One thing I've noticed as I've matured and lived - it's been 20 years since my last time at the kitchen table doing school work - is that my conclusion regarding homeschooling has gotten more and more negative. I don't mean to say that public or private schools are de facto better. They are not. But homeschooling has very ugly and very easy failure modes, and it fails-unsafe.