A child not enrolled in school or something equivalent is called truant, and that’s against the law. Every state has rules that define acceptable homeschooling.

A child not enrolled in school or something equivalent is called truant, and that’s against the law. Every state has rules that define acceptable homeschooling. Keeping children confined at home with no social interaction is not homeschooling even if the parents call it that. It does happen that parents remove their kids from society for various (usually religious) reasons but they are not mainstream homeschoolers. Analogously some people who don’t have regular jobs are criminals, but a lot of them are self-employed, independently wealthy, retired, etc., so you can’t equate no having a job with not working, or engaging in crime.