Homeschooling depends entirely on the parents;good parents can do a fine job homeschooling.There has to be some means of checking though.
But homeschooling in my case would have been disastrous with a father who had only derogatory anecdotes of school(including his college time) and a mother who struggled with math.Neither helped with homework.Father had no use for learning or reading not directly part of his conception of farming, and an oft-expressed distrust of science and anyone who wore a suit.Plus a dislike of”city people” and most churches.If not for required school attendance ,either public or parochial, I would have hardly seen anyone my age.
Nope, because the public schools fail kids by the droves and nobody holds them accountable or criticizes them for where the kids are as they do with homeschoolers.
Homeschoolers are held to much higher standards and accountability and criticism of failure than public schools are.
If homeschooling is to be condemned because some parents fail their children, then public schools ought to be condemned when the hundreds of thousands of kids graduate each year, barely literate even though they were given basically, a participation diploma.
So public schools are *checked* and what difference has that ever made?