* there is no co-op. Meeting another homeschooler is a whole day affair due to traffic
* ballet and other extracurricular are fine, but always after school hours when traffic is terrible
* math circle is so oversubscribed you have to test to get into it
* neighbors’ kids are locked in school all day and then doing their custom extracurricular. We never see them.
* family & friends, we have none.
Nonetheless we homeschool. We can cover 2 years of math and reading in 6 months.
For example, when I took trigonometry in high school I did none of the homework, showed up to the tests and aced them. That led me to getting a C in that class (kindly the teacher advanced me to pre-calc, but forced me to retake trig as well). That's basically the attitude I had throughout high school and undergrad. I'm positive I could have amounted to more earlier in life (only years later did I return to academia to earn my PhD in CS after tiring of industry).
For some reason people think having an education is only valuable if it is traded for money. For example I think an educated wife and a mom who never earns a single dollar from an employer is incredibly value to her family.
I hope my daughters get a robust liberal arts education and then just get married young and have kids and be homemakers.