No one knows the future so as a parent you have to make decisions now with limited information. Society as an abstraction doesn’t decide anything about individ

No one knows the future so as a parent you have to make decisions now with limited information. Society as an abstraction doesn’t decide anything about individual children. Governments and school systems have policies and procedures and rules that may represent what’s “the best,” but I think you will have a hard time showing that schools specifically accomplish their stated goals, or do the best thing for any individual child. Or for “society” in general if you look at the dismal results of American public schools. Forcing a child to stop reading and shaming a six year old in front of their classmates didn’t happen because of “society,” it happened because of one teacher who had the backing of a bureaucracy that will protect its own existence and workers at the expense of children. Decisions made by teachers and school administrators affect thousands of children. Our decision to take our daughter out of school only affected us — none of the other kids at that school suffered as a result. If you look at outcomes you will find that homeschooled children statistically do better than kids who go through the public school system. I attribute most of that to the additional parental time and attention, but as Maria Montessori documented children learn more and for longer in life when not subjected to rigid (and scientifically questionable) pedagogy from professional “educators.”