“You really do? Sadly, I don’t believe it.”
There are quite a few families who would love to have their kids get a decent education. Unfortunately they are at the mercy of the bums who are aided by the race pimps who curry favor with the local dems pols and/or the education industry. Most of them are not able to home school either from a financial or ability standpoint.
My personal experience was I attended church grammer school and public high school. Neither school had “junk” or “fad” courses. Close to 90% of my high school class in 63 went on to college. Granted it was a different era. Sending my child to such a high school I would not consider wrong and frankly resent the inference that doing so was wrong for my family who was not well off or able to provide as decent an education to the one I received. As I said, I don’t have children so I have no dog in the home school/private/public school arena. However, I do believe one gets their moral and ethical foundation at home and should also have their foundation ABCs by the time they attend schooling.
At the time, it wasn’t wrong for your family to send their kids to public school, because they were still decent then.
Now, they’re nothing but indoctrination centers with the goal of an Orwellian society.
People who think that way, have low responsibility, and have chosen to be victims.
When our kids were still pre-school age, my wife and I were both wage slaves, and felt we had no option but to send our kids to public school when the time came. When the job I'd held for nearly a decade disappeared one day, I realized that the only security I had, was in myself. It was at that point that I decided to start my own business.
The first year was tough, but we made it to year two intact. The second year was nothing but asses and elbows, trying to get it 'right'. By year three, we really knew what we were doing, and began climbing in the local business community.
By the time our eldest was ready to start kindergarten, we were in a position to choose home schooling rather than public school. After giving the local kindergarten a try for some months, we saw that it was everything we feared it might be, and took our boy out.
Point is, if your kids are important enough to you, you can move mountains to keep them safe. If my wife and I could do it, anyone can. It just takes intention, dedication, and problem solving.
I hear this so often, that one needs financial ability to homeschool. Sure wish I knew what it meant. I homeschooled mine on an income under $12k/year, and the results were superb.
In my opinion it is usually a matter of priorities. The money's there and the parents have other ways they'd rather spend it.