The only thing government schools do is send home a tuition-free curriculum. The **real** work of teaching and learning is done by the parents and the child, himself, IN THE HOME.
If academically successful institutionalized and homeschooled children were compared there would be little to NO difference in home habits and values of the parents, and the TIME spent IN THE HOME in formal, at the kitchen table, studying!
In other words government schools are paid big bucks, do nothing, and the results are entirely due to the AFTERSCHOOLING done ( or not done) by the parents and the child.
And...If there is any teacher or “educator” or disagrees with me, then show me the studies that PROVE **where** learning takes place, **how** it happens, and **who** is doing the real hard work ( parents, child, or teacher). SHOW ME THE PROOF. Where are the links?
I agree with you. When I home schooled we got the days work finished in 3-4 hours. Friends who had children in public or private school would get their children off the bus then spend the same number of hours on homework. I always thought they were doing the real teaching.
The failure I see now is that schools in many areas won’t allow the students to take books home therefore parents can’t see what their child is doing or assess their progress and needs.