My wife is a great kindergarten teacher in a public school. She has taught hundreds of kids to read over to years.
My sister in law “homeschooled” her boys for three years basically sleeping late and spending the day doing anything but teaching. They are now back in public school far behind their classmates.
I’m torn on homeschooling because of her
If that’s what your sister-in-law did then it wasn’t homeschooling. So you’re torn over an illogical comparison. You may as well have compared public schooling to truck driving. Compare public schooling to real homeschooling. You’ll have to do some real research. Go online, find a homeschooling support group in your area and talk to those folks.
Well, homeschooling works and it works well.
You just have to do it.
It’s not the homeschooling that’s the problem, it’s the lazy parents who won’t teach and who give homeschooling a bad name.
Find a co op of homeschoolers. Ask to interview any of them (with parents permissionof course) go as young as 3rd grade. Ask what they are learning. What they like to do when they arent in school... ask how they get along with their siblings. Pick another kid do the same thing. You will find they are smart, respectful, approachable, thoughtful, caring, funny. etc. We have friends that she dropped out of school in tennesee when she was 13. She wanted to homeschool their daughter. Daughter was given free ride to a top west coast school, double majored in business and finance. Was recruited in her Junior year to work at Deloit. Now 5 years later is earning 250,000K all from this mom that dropped out of school in 8th grade. Dont pick the person that is the worst at something to define a movement.
The **real** learning happens at home.