I'm not convinced. The historical argument made by homeschooling advocates is the exact opposite of the one that you're making now: that public schools excessiv

I'm not convinced. The historical argument made by homeschooling advocates is the exact opposite of the one that you're making now: that public schools excessively emphasize conformity (and the interests of the public rather than familial sphere) at the cost of each child's individuality. > The prevailing culture in large city public schools turns those ideas on their head. The focus is on individual self-actualization, and questioning authority, hierarchy, and norms. It’s about what society owes individuals (“rights”) instead of what individuals owe society. There’s a veneer of cooperation and obligation, but it’s framed in terms of what “privileged” (whites, the rich) owe everyone else, not what each individual owes society. This is a pundit's warped idea of what a public school looks like. I was in a public high school not too long ago (one that was and is 60% first-generation Americans), and never at any point did I get the sense (or to this day feel) like my education was intended to make me feel asymmetrically entitled. And again: there's a sense in which this is far more true for private and home schooling, where the entire point is to eliminate the mutual network of obligations that exist between students, their parents, and the public's interest in favor of private, religious, or sectarian interests.