Exactly!
I don't see why some people can't understand that there is nothing natural or necessary about herding a child with several thousand others of the same chronological age.
How else are they gonna learn the joys of gay sex and the dangers or global warming?
This bears repeating over and over again. Folks talk about public schools like that is the way that its always been done. In reality, public schools are only about a century old. For thousands of years, people schooled their children at home.
The public school system grew out of the application of socialist political philosophy to eduction (the state has to do everything for everyone) and the factory method of organization typical of everything in the 19th century.
Many bad things grew out of the state control of education. First, it mushroomed into a corrupt socialist bureacracy dedicated to its own well-being regardless of the education offered. Second, it turned into a method of social control used by the same government bureacrats to mold the thinking of generations of american kids.
Also, bringing all the kids together from one region into one building (with badly outnumbered adults overseeing things) created something never before seen: modern youth culture. Kids got together and immediately formed their own dysfunctional "lord of the flies" culture...complete with gangster rap, slutty clothing, violence, teen pregnancy, and ultimately Columbine-style murder/suicide.
With home schooling, kids are moved back into an environment controlled by their families rather than one controlled by government hacks and wild youth culture.
I honestly believe that most of the pathologies we've seen in youth over the past 3 decades can be dropped on the laps of 1) media working its way into our homes 2) schools.
Both of these things brought us from "Little House on the Prarie" to Marilyn Manson in little over a century....and thats quite a fall (did Laura Ingalls Wilder have body piercings and a gothic hairdo? I don't think so)