You and the others who have scolded me on this thread, would be more successful convincing people if you started from a point where you acknowledge what would SEEM obvious to anybody unaquanted with homeschooling, that it’s unhealthy to keep kids in the nest for 18 years.
Maybe what seems obvious is really false, and I’m open to hearing about it, but the hostle, condescending attitude that the homeshoolers on this thread showed me isn’t the most winning approach.
It’s homeschooling that is closest to the traditional model of raising children. Formal “schools” are only a hundred and fifty or so years old. And the modern government schools would be unrecognizable to most of the students of those early schools.
Homeschooling works, period, and produces adults who are not stifled or uncertain. My husband and I were both homeschooled. We are both successful adults, engineers, voters, have multiple interests that our parents didn’t teach us. Our siblings are all equally successful adults.
It’s pretty odd for you to complain that the homeschoolers are hostile and condescending when you showed up on the thread basically accusing them of child neglect.