Diesel powered washers wow. I can remember that my mom did clothes in a tub with a wringer and all until I was about ten or so. Heaven help you if you ran into the clothes line and knocked clothes off.
There are several things about homeschooling that I am skeptical about: one is that I do not believe most parents are qualified to do it, have time to do it right, would teach with the proper degree of objectivity (even with the Leftist dominated teachers' Unions there are still different perspectives simply because people just don't agree about everything), and it is unlikely that proper scientific equipment is available for teaching science.
I understand people wishing to remove their children from pernicious influences but one should not assume that kids believe much of what they are taught. I do not believe the state should completely restrict homeschooling but I also do not believe it should allow anything to be passed as schooling. My late wife was a teacher who anyone would have loved having she loved her kids and they loved her. The kids she taught would almost entirely have been totally lost with homeschooling given the Welfare Class nature of the parents.
I'd never consider saying that homeschooling is right for everyone, or even for the majority. (You sign up for a science course at community college or a private school that permits partial enrollment :-).
Regarding the German situation, my reasoning is this: If the mandatory public schools promoted values that encourage childbearing, the German population wouldn't be in a decline. Therefore, it's contradictory for them to pay people who don't want to have children to have them, while perpetuating a system that has contributed to the declining fertility.
Another issue, of course, is that, unless they limit the subsidy to ethnic Germans, they're simply going to be buying more German citizens of Turkish ethnicity.
Our friends started homeschooling because they knew they were going to be moving 3 times in 2 years. Now they're stuck with it as they're now in a permanent home and their kids are many grade levels ahead of the public schools. They can't possibly put their kids in public schools.