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My daughter is in online school, which is like homeschooling, except it's an actual accredited state school with real teachers giving live video lessons during the day, although I still have to stay home with her to help her with assignments and keep her on track. She is not religious, we are anything but right-wing. We took her out of school because she's a unique sort of kid and those sorts of kids get bullied. She was so severely bullied that even the bullied kids bullied her. She was having thoughts of self-harm.
Now she has much more self-esteem, her grades are better than they have ever been, and she actually has more friends now than she did when she was in public school. We even have a teen homeschool/online school social group that meets once or twice a week.
There are still bad days, but overall, she's doing really well and this has been a life-changer for her.
I wouldn't recommend it for every kid out there, but if I had the option when I was her age, I would have jumped at the chance.
This is similar to how my mom began homeschooling. My oldest sister was being bullied at school and my mom took her out for her own safety. At the time we were religious, but not particularly fundamentalist.
With internet resources, libraries, and these state-sponsored cyber-schooling programs, you can find the niche that is appropriate for your kid and do it in a way that doesn't involve right-wing nut job indoctrination as you prove. If people want to have some sort of oversight to ensure we don't churn out Duggars or Turpin kids, then I'm okay with that so long as there is flexibility in the curriculum to specialize to your child's needs & interests.