Home schooling doesn't have any quality control. That's only great if the parent makes it great. And it is often the case that parents don't make it great. A lo

Home schooling doesn't have any quality control. That's only great if the parent makes it great. And it is often the case that parents don't make it great. A lot of parents are lazy and happy to do the minimum or less - they only home school, or pretend to, enough to keep the state off their back, and may prefer that kids do work for them. In addition, there is a strong tendency for home-schooling parents to be very ideological, so that kids who are otherwise smart and can read, write and do arithmetic end up with huge holes in areas like history, mythology and biology. I wish we wouldn't so often reduce this issue to "public school is bad in every way, so it's better if there are no common public educational services for anyone".