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Tbh I still associate homeschooling with conservative christianity. They have a much stronger incentive to homeschool than others by a large margin.

• magic_hamster 3y ago
  That's interesting to hear, as someone living in a different country I always assume that the reason to homeschool is so you could give your children better education.
  • lolinder 3y ago
    That's a common reason here, too. It's why I was homeschooled—my parents were perfectly content to send us to public school until we moved to another state and had a terrible local school. OP's perception is because we also have a much larger conservative-Christian cohort than most other developed countries. As the grandparent points out, that leads to a large percentage of homeschoolers doing it for non-academic reasons, which skews stats and public perception.
  • WicWacWok 3y ago
    > That's interesting to hear, as someone living in a different country I always assume that the reason to homeschool is so you could give your children better education. The attitude I was raised with is that parents will always have to provide supplemental education but the socialization school provides is much more difficult to replace.