It’s a good dream. I homeschool also.
Some of the most successful men I know are self employed tradesmen (plumbers, mechanics, electricians). They are always available for community projects and volunteer work because they aren’t tied to a 9-5 paycheck AND they actually have usefull skills and their own tools.
Pointy head liberals have pretty much wrecked this nation since FDR’s time. It’s the guys with calluses and stained fingernails that fix things that we need more of.
Because we do not train our young to build and to repair we have a generation of burger flippers and gangbangers with no future and no ideas and no desire to serve the community they live in.
My ‘baby’ brother tested out with an IQ in the 180’s. He’s a self-published, communal house managing semi-liberal, sorta conservative property owner with a gun who hates groundhogs with a passion and never has touched drugs or alcohol in his life. Oh, and he’s as self-sufficient as any human I know....right down to the solar panels on his house.
Did he go to college? No, tried it, bored him.
Do you know what he does for money? He’s a handiman. And he makes a fortune doing it...the man can plumb, wire, tile, build...etc, you name it. Can work circles around most folks (as long as he has a nap in the middle of the day).
I know I’m biased, but the world would be a better place with more like him.
For a nation that does not train its young to build and to repair, Home Depot and Lowe’s do a heck of a business. A burger flipper today moves on to bigger things eventually. That’s always been the case.
I know a whole lot of former burger flippers who have moved on to bigger and better things. Isn’t it great that folks can move up in the world when they see that burger flipping isn’t all that useful? That’s what’s great about capitalism. You have the opportunity to learn how to do something that will make you more money than burger flipping. And human nature dictates that people do what is necessary to gain the things that they want.
Educators are no different than anyone else. Their job is to find folks to educate. They have to justify a need for more money in order to move themselves ahead. And the consumer has a need to dicker with the ones pushing a faulty product. Because we have public funded education, we have to elect people who are wise economically and who recognize a good product versus a bad product.