[JimRed]

Those people who are incapable of homeschooling don't want their kids hanging around the house.

I was referring to those who want to, try hard but simply are not good at it. Like me, playing the piano.

[wintertime]

My bet is that those parents who are incapable of homeschooling have children who, if institutionalized for their schooling, will fail there as well.

There is a reason that I believe this is true. Why?

Answer:

It has been my anecdotal observation that academically successful institutionalized children and successful homeschoolers have parents that value education, have similar home routines, and study habits. Both groups of successful children ( home and institutionalized) spend about the same amount of time **at home** studying.

So?...If both groups of academically successful children ( home and institutionalized) are spending the **same** amount of time doing homework in the home, then maybe that is where all the real hard work of learning is happening. Maybe, the only thing an institutional school does is send home a very expensive curriculum.

I have repeatedly asked for studies from people who claim to be teachers. No one ever has and one Stanford professor e-mailed me and told me studies to investigate where the bulk of learning happens ( classroom or home) have never been done. It is entirely possible that we spend up to $25,000/per year/ per children on government schools that are completely ineffective.