Because I know a kid who was essentially unschooled, and he now works for a US congressmen, and pols are constantly calling him to help in their campaigns.
I knew two girls who were homeschooled this way. It’s called un schooling, and it just basically means they have unstructured learning. All kids learn- they are learning machines. Their parents were college professors.
I had them in Sunday school for a while and they were way below grade level in reading. But you know what, they did learn in that way, in fact, both were offered college scholarships and both attended and graduated college, and hsve gone on tosuccessful adulthood.
as long as the kids aren’t part of the state government controlled education, the state has no business interfering. The state can’t even educate the kids they’ve got in their own schools. They don’t own people’s children, just because they happen to live in their state.
Believe it or not there are freepers with and 8th grade eduction who have done very well for themselves.