It’s strange to watch the spirit of Laodicea descend on America. In my circles, there are actually fewer parents homeschooling than before.
Homeschooling is being injured by the facts of economic life: jobs are so bad, pay is so poor, that to have a livable income both parents must work to provide reasonable food, clothing, and shelter.
I’m not making excuses, but it is a reality.
I know of one homeschooling family where the one parent intentionally stayed home despite the impact on income. The other parent had a decent enough skill to make that possible, but that is not always the case.
They use the Liberty schooling materials on line. My sense as I watched his kids explain their classes is that almost any parent could monitor this and that 2 parents doing it at staggered times could still make it possible. The question, of course, would be funding those classes.