The fact remains that the vast majority of people cannot home school and not many SHOULD even if they could. Given the level of ignorance about subjects which need to be taught few children would receive a proper education.
Few parents can teach math, languages, grammar, history, science or any other subject which has any substance to it.
Even on FR the level of misinformation, distorted information and just plain old false information is staggering.
It seems many students are NOT learning much "math, languages, grammar, history, science or any other subject which has any substance to it" in the Public Schools.....for those who would WANT to try....more power to them....they do NOT need advanced educations.....just motivation to find the resources....IMHO.
Whose "fact"? Actually you claim many "facts". Where are they? Got links?
I see, your opinion stands in for "facts".
And the schools which failed to give them the tools to teach 'subjects with any substance' can teach their kids? Hah! And some education major whose one math class was "math for teachers" can do a better job?
It's quite a myth that the "vast majority" of people "cannot" homeschool.
The most convincing story I ever read was right here on FR. A grandma volunteered in her granddaughter's 3rd grade class. One week the teacher asked grandma to teach remedial reading to a couple of students. Grandma protested that she didn't know how to teach reading. The teacher replied, oh, every page has instructions you can read on what the child should do. Just guide the student through that and you'll do fine. After grandma taught those kids to read in a few weeks, she decided to homeschool her grandchildren.
Anyone who can read and write at a passable level can homeschool.
The parents' failings, for lack of a better word, can have the same effect whether or not the child is homeschooled. For example, I know two families where the parents regularly use poor grammar ("we don't have none" etc.) In one family, the children go to public school and are taught correct grammar. In the other family, the children go to homeschool and are taught, by virtue of the language arts books they use, correct grammar. All the parents still say "we don't have none," but the public-schooled children also say "we don't have none," regardless of what they have been taught in school, and the homeschooled children say "we don't have any" b/c they go on what their books say is correct.
Maybe if the goobermint would cut taxes and abolish the Dept of Education many would and not many SHOULD even if they could.
This is something that a limosuine liberal would say.