It is not necessarily a question of tools, techniques, or cultural approach. Are there new ideas that should be shared and adopted - of course - however, the gr

It is not necessarily a question of tools, techniques, or cultural approach. Are there new ideas that should be shared and adopted - of course - however, the greatest advantage a home school teacher (in many cases a parent) has over mainstream teachers is the ability to work one-on-one for extended periods of time with a single pupil. There is no greater way to impact the education and growth of a young person than to understand and teach to that specific student (which is only partially an academic task). As a high school teacher, I am fully aware that there is more that could be done to modify my instruction and learning goals to more closely align with the individual needs of my students - however it is not possible to do so with while teaching 30 students at a time, 90 students per day, with a total head count just short of two hundred unique individuals each semester. This is the core of Bloom's Two Sigma Problem and the holy grail for educational advancement - but, currently, this is the trade-off we make by sending our children to traditional schools rather than educating them ourselves.