Wished I could have homeschooled my child. Unfortunately, single parents don't have a choice.
More than just single parents... many people don't appreciate that teaching is a profession - and most teachers that I've encountered are very dedicated to their students. On the order of 90% + people who start home-schooling, abandon it within a year, not appreciating the tremendous amount of work it takes.
Personally, I don't want to be in a position to grade my kid. As a scientist, I'm concerned that schools aren't teaching basic math and science skills, but most of the parents I know are even less able to handle math. Homeschoolers have to be exceptional folks, and I applaud them. I don't see that as being a solution for everyone though...
Get married. Where there's a will, ... :-)
I wish I had home schooled. At a top rated school district here in Dallas, there is no spelling and very little grammer being taught. I received a thank you note from a daughter of a friend for a graduation present. She graduated in the top 4% of her class at a supposedly excellent public high school. She had misspelled words in her note! I was appalled, but they simply don't teach spelling anymore.
An acquaintance of mine at church just graduated her youngest boy. Her oldest is a homeschool graduate too and is currently in the Navy. The youngest intends to do the same.
Her husband walked out on her when they were little and she managed to homeschool and work. (She told about it in a speech at our end of school banquet.)
I don't know exactly how it's done. Never had to research it, thankfully. But I do know that there are single parents out there that homeschool. There are also poor people who homeschool. There have even been homeless people who homeschool
There are homeschoolers in every walk of life.
I know of a few single/divorced moms who homeschool their children. They do a good job, too.
The only problem they seem to have is with their ex-husbands... when those ex-husbands aren't homeschool-supportive, they take the mothers to court to push the children into school, even though the children are learning at advanced levels at home.
I'm an area admin for a private ISP for homeschoolers. I have a few single parents schooling their children at home..quite successfully. :o) They have family and friends who help out so they're not the lone ranger.
Some of them do, some of them don't. It depends on who's decision the divorce was.
I'm divorced, still single, and homeschooling for 4 years now. There are choices ... it's hard but possible.