I always laugh whenever someone suggest homeschooling kids. Very, very few people can actually afford to do so. It’s just not practical. The real challenge is to try to fix the schools. But that’s harder than nobody wants to take the time to try.
It costs almost nothing. I'm serious. We all picked up used books, sometimes free, and borrowed from the library. Many homeschool families even had two working parents. Where there's a will, there's a way. :-)
Your argument completely falls apart when you really look at it. It’s an excuse, not an argument.
We homeschooled four kids on a single income. We lived in a very modest house, I did my own repairs for the most part, we drove older cheap paid for cars, we had no debt besides the mortgage, we didn’t do Disney vacations, actual curriculum costs were $1-2,000 a year.
Live a modest lifestyle and you can afford just about anything.
It comes down to working toward what’s important. If your children aren’t important to you, you won’t work toward it.
“Very, very few people can actually afford to do so.”
I never will understand why people have children when they can’t afford it. My parents should not have procreated.
In our area people from the local church band together to home school their kids.
The results have been outstanding—kids get to meet their potential without being subject to leftist brainwashing, pervert teacher grooming and hallway thuggery.
The church sponsors outdoor and indoor kids recreation so there is plenty of socialization.
They don’t talk about fixing the problem—they do it—one child at a time.
These are hardworking average folks—showing what creative parents can do.
“Fixing the schools” would be a high effort/low results activity.
Smart humans use their time wisely—educating the kids they care about most—their kids.
My neighbors homeschool their kids on a single blue collar income.
Of course they have an old van for a car, don’t take vacations and the 5 kids share a couple of bedrooms but they are the happiest kids around.
My neighbor is rightly proud of them. I’m glad to have them as neighbors.