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Homeschooling is mostly awful. Parents don't have the time or skill to teach students properly.

You don't really propose anything that can help, you just say everything is "trash".

If a man meets one asshole, then that's unlucky, if a man meets a 100 assholes, then maybe he's the asshole.

If you went through 4 years of high school and had only "trash" experiences, maybe the school wasn't the problem.

If you can't propose anything of value or any real ways to improve our flawed system, then you opinions are essentially useless.

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> Homeschooling is mostly awful. Parents don't have the time or skill to teach students properly.

Care to back that up with some data...

We're all about challenging societal norms here. Except public school, never question it's authority and place in society.

Once again, you have zero suggestions for how to school 99% of the population.

Homeschooling isn't feasible (or preferable) to a majority of the population, so unless you suggest something else, then you are just complaining.

It's like you are bitching about having a military, but you don't suggest another way to protect our country.

> Once again, you have zero suggestions for how to school 99% of the population.

99% of the population could be home, private, or co-op schooled. Perhaps we can do an ACA-style voucher system. Everyone above X over the poverty line pays for their school, everyone else gets some kind of voucher.

> Homeschooling isn't feasible (or preferable) to a majority of the population

That's just your assertion, it's not backed up by an facts.

> It's like you are bitching about having a military, but you don't suggest another way to protect our country.

Who does the country need protection from, at this point? And if that country took control of our country, how would things be materially different than they are today?

Again, which public school? I can think of several excellent public high schools within thirty miles of where I sit, and I can think of a number of others that are mediocre or worse.

Not any reliable data, it's admittedly anecdotal. I have been in education for about 15 years and haven't seen any quality homeschooling. Students would have been much better off going to a decent public school.

And homeschooling isn't feasible for the vast majority of the population, so using homeschooling as solution is ridiculous.

All the OP (to whom I oddly can’t reapond) has is anecdotes, so I’ll offer an opposing one. I was homeschooled. I just finished a (real) STEM PhD. My sister was also homeschooled. She holds a (real) masters degree. Neither of my parents went to college. The idea that homeschooling produces an inferior education rings hollow to my ear.

Growing up, our family was lower middle class. Our lack of financial resources combined with my parents limited formal education makes it difficult for my to understand why homeschooling is infeasible for most. The biggest downside is probably an inferior socialization.

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