Some school districts have a 40% attrition rate, 40% of the kids do not even graduate.
So what do we do about the public school failures?
Are they mandated to be homeschooled?
What makes you think that most of homeschool parents are not college educated? Got stats for that somewhere?
Because that sure isn’t what I’ve seen in my 12 years of homeschooling with involvement with three different homeschool support groups.
I personally avoid the utilitarian-type arguments. At the end of the day parents have the God-given right and responsibility to educate their own children. Government no more has the God-given right to license or direct parent-teachers than I have the God-given right as a parent to invade a foreign country.
It is great that home schooled children, on average, get a better education that government schooled children. More importantly, in addition to a great education, homeschooled children often get a Christian education (synonymous?). Recall that the primary function of government schools (something they are actually very successful at doing) is socialization of children into a secular humanist worldview, rather than providing children with a good education.
There are plenty of “conservative” “Christians” who defend government schooling. Most of them are ignorant. Their participation in the PS system helps to guarantee that we will have socialist government in this country for a long time to come. Ironically, homeschooling “liberals” are probably doing more for the preservation of the Republic with their education choice, than allegedly conservative public school supporters ever did with their vote for Governor etch-a-sketch.
The society we live in today, with all of its moral decay and illiterate government schooling graduates, is a product of the government school system and its “accredited teachers”.