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.
I think I came on this thread in an appropriate way. I simple said:
“Wouldn’t it be better to find religious school you believe in? It can’t be optimal to isolate kids.”
Maybe I was wrong, but I hardly say it was aggresive.