Ask Lemmygrad

I agree that homeschooling can be done right- but it requires a considerable amount of knowledge, time, resources, and effort on the parent's part- as well as, of course, the parent being "genuinely good" and not simply believing themselves to be so.

I think a majority of the time- perhaps even an overwhelming majority of the time- things don't add up in such a way in practice. I've certainly never seen it IMO. And the risks that come with it tend to far, far outweigh the potential benefits (though I think that it, or at least online schooling, should be an option for niche cases- though alternative school options are still probably preferable even then). Though to be fair- in its implementation here in the west, I'd probably go so far as to say that homeschooling is allowed, specifically to pander to such risks (social ills)- religious fanatics, abusers and control freaks, pseudoscience believers (primarily antivax), and people wanting to wring out free child labor from their kids.

There are plenty of homeschooling circles just full of this shit and I've seen them, other than the antivax I've even experienced it all. Even now in my late 20s I have nothing but suspicion for the practice (as flawed as schooling may be as well- which I've also experienced) and will probably hold the same strong opinion for life. Should the option remain available? Perhaps, but under lock and key and the strictest possible scrutiny; and even then it should probably be less "homeschooling" and more "community-schooling" as an alternative to "institutional (mainstream)-schooling." In its present form I think it's a prime example of the bourgeois, private conceptualization of family in action as Marx called to be abolished.