It's also true that rural public school districts often have less spending per student than urban districts...but take a guess which ones have better test scores and higher graduation rates?
Our first year of homeschooling (11 years ago) cost us less than ballet lessons.
I've tried and tried to figure out how a school could possibly spend $7-10,000 per kid and can't.
Our church meets in a school. One day, I went into a classroom to research something. The World Book encyclopedia was from 1959!
It is astonishing how little time is actually required to give a quality education to a child in homeschool. Our son outreads most all gvt school kids that are two and three years ahead of him and spends less than half the time they do in school. Same with math.
As a result, homeschool kids get a bonus. They have time to be kids and goof around.