[cornelis]

Yeah, homeschooling is great.

But precollegiate schooling via the parents is terribly inefficient.

It ignores the simple economic principle of the division of labor and indicates a breakdown in social trust.

It’s too bad many of us have no other choice.

Welcome to the dark ages.

[Sopater]

But precollegiate schooling via the parents is terribly inefficient.

Not in my experience.

[Sopater]

It’s too bad many of us have no other choice.

Often, but not always, when I hear that, it is more a matter of priority than of choice. That is quite often true of single parent families, but not of two parent families. For two parent families, it really comes down to whether it is of higher priority to have the additional income or to raise your children yourself with your own value system. We lived off of a $25/week grocery budget for several years while homeschooling because it was more important to us than having additional income at the expense of sending our children away for others to train.

[TalonDJ]

“But precollegiate schooling via the parents is terribly inefficient.”

Only if you set the value of ‘time spent by an adult’ as constant and are willing to take less overall outcome in return for saving a lot of hours of adult time. If you weight the outcomes more highly then public school shows up as such a massive waste of time it isn’t funny. I am raising a supercar, not a hatchback. my goal is Maximum performance and morals. Efficiency only comes into play when points of diminishing returns are reached.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Single parent homeschooler.

My son graduates next week with his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and will start his Master’s in January. He has been on the Dean’s List every semester. He found an internship where is he helping to upgrade a program for modern operating systems. They have liked him so much they converted him to an employee, working around his school schedule.

His boss, from China, likes him so much, he has my son tutor his highschool son.