I know a couple who, due to covid and uncertainty of covid school plans this year, decided to go ahead and home school. It is going REALLY WELL. Their kids are thriving, learning more, finishing up their lessons early, taking awesome field trips with the parents, etc. The kids are extremely smart. Both parents are well educated, so they do have that particular advantage. Parents say they plan to stick with homeschooling for at least another year after this one.
Now that is a testimony my hearts leaps for joy over.
It can and should be done.
Growing up, I had a friend and fellow homeschooler. Her mom was a single parent, with an IQ that was surely below 100. This woman had never lacked for social workers, child protection personnel, and other such interventionists...who did little to educate her or help her learn. I would say she didn't know who Abe Lincoln was, or that he was the same man on the penny and the $5 bill, though she knew the practical difference there. She homeschooled because she didn't want her daughter to live a similar life, and because she was always afraid a social worker would take her child from her. (She said they had tried to talk her into abortion, then adoption, and public school would have meant more do-gooders up to no good.)
Well, the daughter has a bachelor's degree now and her mom freely admits that almost all the education she ever had, she acquired while homeschooling her child.
Point is, you don't even have to be smart, just be motivated. That's the biggest advantage.
Parents don’t need to be highly educated because they will also learn as they go and for the most part, manage to stay ahead of the kids, which is all you really need.
My oldest left me in the dust when she taught herself calculus out of a Saxon Math calc book.