homeschooling is a choice available too, and i'll tell you one thing: most homeschooled kids i worked with were from poor families, almost always single-income

homeschooling is a choice available too, and i'll tell you one thing: most homeschooled kids i worked with were from poor families, almost always single-income and often with this income being close to minimum wage. Mostly rural (or rather in small, 100 to 500 hab towns). The context in which i met them was great, and their parent had to be involved to put them there, so i guess i received the "best" examples of homschooled kids in my area, but they did not have any major issue (often missing some in STEM knowledge, but all of them with a logical/creative mind that make learning hisghschool math a breeze, and anyway, our association was there for this exact issue)