Why on Earth would parents choose to home school their children?

If they live in Alabama, the teacher/student relationship Makes more sense when homeschooled

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No trust in public education?
Sheltering child from society?

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These two sum it up perfectly.

I think under certain circumstances there's nothing wrong with it. Say dad's got a great income with a lot of time off and they want to travel.

Homeschooling can give you LOADS more time off for say vacation with more flexibility. You really only have to teach and do school work for 3-4 hours a day with more focused learning.

But most people do it for IMO wrong reasons.

There’s a read on politalk right now about some 8th grade boy who got #metoo’d by a bunch of girls who didn’t like an avatar he used on Snapchat.

While me and my wife will never homeschool our kids, I think keeping your kids home to properly instill the virtues you want them to have is a valid reason to avaoid public school.

Also let’s say you live in a terrible public school district and you can’t affodnprivate school, but you know you can homeschool. If done properly, and this is the key, it can be a great educational system.

The people I knew, growing up, who were homeschooled, were homeschooled for religious purposes.

One family in particular, sent their kids to Catholic school. Long story short, the dad opened up his own non-denominational church and they took all three kids out of Catholic school and homeschooled them.

There were two other families I knew, who were members of this church, who ended up homeschooling their kids. One of the families had 6 kids, it wasn't until after the first 3 graduated HS before they decided to homeschool the others.

WIth that said, I am sure there are multiple reasons why people decide to do this. I do not know much about how it all works, but isn't there a program for homeschooled kids in which they do things with other homeschooled kids?

I’m pretty sure my kid would be a lot smarter if homeschooled.

And the notion that homeschoolers miss out on social interaction is wrong in my opinion. This idea that homeschoolers are locked in their house from 8-5 with no outside interaction is wrong. Many homeschoolers have organized social events. They take field trips (in different ways) too.

Because public schools fricking suck, that's why.

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A school principal is undisputedly an agent of the State of Texas. Yet the rules that apply to police officers interrogating your child do not apply to school principals. Even if the police officer detaiprincipalns your child and takes them to the principal, as long as the police officer leaves the room prior to the interrogation by the school principal, the rights granted to any person when interrogated by the police do not apply. In the Matter of V.P., 55 S.W.3d 25. This includes the right to an attorney and the right to remain silent. So even though the principal is an agent of the State, they are not law enforcement and the questioning by a school principal is not a custodial interrogation as it would have been had a police officer conducted the questioning of your child. So now school administrators and police officers are trained to have the principal take all statements or confessions from the child to avoid the constitutional protections afforded all persons when questioned by law enforcement. They will question your child, without notice to you, and anything your child says can be used against them in court. It is a sad day when our schools and law enforcement work together with the intent to deny our children their rights provided to them by both the U.S. and Texas Constitutions along with the Texas Family Code.

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This is a good reason

Let me ask you. What do you think is more valuable with regards to education.

A 1-on-1 environment where the teacher, usually the mom, demands the most out of their student (child) or a public school teacher who is underpaid babysitting 30 kids with cell phones eating tide-pods?

And before you say it, home school kids of have loads of activities outside with other home schooled kids and are well rounded in a social setting.

What do you think is better for development?

My neighbors down the street did it. 7 kids. All are high functioning very socialized individuals. More so than probably 98% of the idiots on the OT. They traveled often and seem to have a great family life.

They are overly protective and generally very religious. They’re scared little Bobby might be exposed to something and be corrupted. These parents do mean well so I’ll definitely give em that, better than not being involved at all. But they deprive their kids of the chance to be independent and develop in that regard.