My original comment “School at home” was a reply to the over-weaning parents whose children can do no wrong and that, therefore, the public school or the teacher is at fault for this that or the other perceived slight to their child.
Many helicopter parents are just as destructive to public education in their own legal ways as are the parents who never intervene in their student’s educational situations.
This all had to do with a THIRD Grade student’s problem due to his/her parent’s decision to not sign a form the year before.
Oceans of taxpayer dollars are utterly wasted on P. S. 666 and always the educrats demand more $$$$$, and then more $$$$$ and still more $$$$$.
With homeschooling, the parents take direct responsibility for the education of their own children. Imagine that! The available curricula like Saxon Math are infinitely superior to the Common Core trash designed to make the kid competent enough to vote Marxist and apply for welfare when the time comes but no more.
Parents NEED to have an alternative for the education of their kids. One that does NOT include Heather Has Two Mommies, or how to clothe a banana with a condom, or how to get an abortion with the help of the school so that mom and dad will NEVER know. One that competently teaches (no PC imposed or allowed) actual American and world history, rigorous mathematics, challenging science courses, biology, chemistry, physics, actual civics, high level English grammar, syntax and literature (the real thing, Faulkner, Saroyan, O. Henry, etc.), world literature (Shakespeare, Donne, German authors, Japanese authors in translation, etc.). Rigorous language courses: Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish with required translation of great literature of each. Economics (von hayek, von Mises, Sowell, Friedman). Since it is homeschooling, theology and philosophy according to family preferences.
But some may say that such a curriculum is too challenging for the parents who, after all, are often themselves victims of pathetic P.S. 666 attempts at edumakashun. Then let homeschooling parents form their own private schools and let those who are talented teachers in each subject teach and maintain strong central discipline and standards of behavior. Such parents will be amazed at how much less expensive such private schools are without all the frills and fancy stuff. Such a school does not NEED football, marching band, junior years in Europe (some CT school systems were raping the taxpayers for that 40 years ago) and other forms of, frankly, entertainment. The kids are too busy learning anyhow.
The only thing that public school parents are guilty of is abandoning their kids to gummint skewels. That guilt is easily dissolved by withdrawing the kids from Stalag 666.
Catholic parochial schools may or may not be an answer. UI am Catholic but the parochial schools are increasingly caving in to Common Core and the various educrat unions. In the very conservative diocese where I live, the DIOCESAN superintendent is a creature formerly involved in running gummint skewel teachers' unions. The kids aren't learning much more than the denizens of PS 666. They just wear uniforms and are required to behave and be polite. My wife teaches at a parent-controlled private Catholic school and tests incoming students with the Iowa Tests. Generally the parochial school kids seeking to transfer in are two years' behind grade and the gummint skewel kids even worse. Inadequately educated kids can use intensive summer school to get up to grade but, if they cannot demonstrate proficiency on the Iowa Tests they have to go back as many years as necessary. When they are promoted or graduate, they WILL have attained a competent grasp of the material and then some.
Therefore: Jeb Bush, go to hell!