In 1998, I did work in an inner-city welfare clinic in Philadelphia. None of the children were homeschooled. It likely would have been impossible for their parents. These children need to be institutionalized for their education.
For students to be homeschooled by parents who are barely, if at all, educated themselves is not in society's best interests. This may or may not include those parents who are addicts, criminals, and/or have no work ethic.
Homeschooling is a choice, and it works quite well for some families. For others, it is impossible, and for still others it simply isn't the best choice.
Of course, wintertime, sometimes your rhetoric is so extreme that I wonder if perhaps you aren't just trying to parody a homeschooler. Surely you don't expect us to take everything you say seriously? :-)
Homeschooling is a choice, and it works quite well for some families.
Those children,being educated at home by motivated and capable parents, are in the most ideal educational setting.
For others, it is impossible, and for still others it simply isn't the best choice.
For those children whose parents are too ill-educated, too sick, too poor, etc., then institutionalization is likely the only alternative. Orphanages are the "best choice" too for some children, but no one would claim that this is an ideal situation for them.
Of course, wintertime, sometimes your rhetoric is so extreme that I wonder if perhaps you aren't just trying to parody a homeschooler. Surely you don't expect us to take everything you say seriously? :-)
It is becoming plainly and "seriously" evident that homeschoolers shine, on average, both academically and socially. It is not "extreme" to state, that, if possible, this would be the best educational setting for almost all children. If their parents are incapable, then a less than ideal institutional setting will be necessary.
An argument that falls on deaf ears when some believe the only choice is what they decide is best for the masses.
How they cannot see the large numbers of well rounded, educated and socially responsible young adults coming from the flawed, yes, but well intentioned schools and the parents that raise them is beyond me.