Not my point at all, and you know that.
It's simply bogus to imply that two income families aren't looking out for their child's best interest.
The FACT is that some parents don't have the knowledge, skills and abilities to homeschool not to mention the temperment. That has nothing to do with second incomes.
Snarky comments like yours turn people off to homeschooling. If you want to be an advocate for homeschooling, you should talk about the benefits, not berate those who choose a different path.
"Not my point at all, and you know that.
It's simply bogus to imply that two income families aren't looking out for their child's best interest."
I'm not implying anything. I'm making a statement of fact. There are one hell of parents who ignore the ills of public education and the risks to their child which are common in public schools because they place a higher priority on money they save by using public education as opposed to private schooling or sacrificing one of the incomes to homeschool.
Am I saying that all two-income families place a lesser priority on money than on the best interest of their child(ren)? No.
But, I'm convinced that a significant percentage of two-income parents who send their children to public school do so simply because they place a higher priority on the bigger house, the nicer car, and/or the better vacation than they do on the education and safety of their child. I've got a neighbor who lives a block from me, in a $800K home, who pulled their kids out of the local private school, and the mother told me...to my face...that the $350 a month, per child (she has two) she was spending was just too much to spend. They have three cars (two drivers) which are worth about $100K between them. They have a covered pool, and she has a woman come into her home to clean twice a week. She knows that her kids were getting a better education in the private school they'd been in. She admits it. She just doesn't want to spend the money.
I can't tell you how many times I've talked about the options of homeschooling or private school to parents of kids who were having either academic or behavioral trouble in public schools, only to have their first reaction be "Oh, it's so expensive!"
It's common...stop kidding yourself.