M-O-N-E-Y.
Some parents aren’t qualified, we’ve been under the public school influence for 70 years, others think they aren’t qualified. Meanwhile another whole generation of kids get screwed and the parents pay a premium for nothing.
Not qualified how? I had no idea how to teach reading and baby math, but I figured it out, AS CAN ANYONE ELSE. There are many curricula that take you through teaching any subject step by step. So, even if a parent is marginally literate, which is the average for government school teachers, you can figure it out. Of course, I didn’t teach high level subjects like “gender studies” and “queer pronouns”, but, despite this deficiency, two of my sons are Ph.D. candidates in hard science/engineering and the third is doing bioengineering entering his junior year.
Do you think first time parents are “unqualified”? After all, they have no experience. How could they possibly figure out what to do with something as delicate and complicated as a baby?
ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO CAN HOMESCHOOL. THERE ARE NO EXCUSES (Don’t give me the single mom/both parents work BS. I know plenty in both categories who do or have homeschooled.)
Oh, yeah, your suburban and rural schools are not ‘different’. The teachers are all trained in the same university cesspool, the textbooks (if any are used) and curricula are controlled by the state, overall standards are controlled by the state, and the same woketard laws and judicial decisions apply to your government child abuse centers, too.