On the up side, ignorant parents could learn right along side their kids.
My wife is a college graduate who home educated our four. She readily admits she learned as much as the kids
And Senator, one is a book editor, another is an aerospace engineer entrusted with multi billion dollar satellites.
Don’t get above your raising. Ricky Skaggs said that.
Parents can and do learn along with their kids.
I did.
And both my sister-in-law and my best friend went to college for teaching degrees.
Imasked them both the same question and that was whether a teaching degree actually taught them to teach. Both of them, separately, told me no, nothing in their teaching degree prepared them for classroom management, or taught them HOW to teach, that you were expected to learn as you go as a teacher
My best friend, who is excellent at math, said that she’d have been far better off with a real math degree than the watered down crap they gave her for her teaching degree. She said it was not rigorous or thorough enough.
Any parent could have become a teacher if they chose. It’s not a matter of intellectual ability, but of commitment to see the student learn and no one has a greater vested interest in that than the parent.
It’s also common knowledge that the students who do the best in school are the ones with the most parental involvement, which in effect means the parents were essentially doing the home schooling using school materials, and the school is taking credit for it.