Good question. Homeschooling doesn’t require one parent to invent school from scratch. There's a lot that has been already accomplished. Structured curricula, online programmes and co-ops already exist and many families use them successfully. This is the bigger issue: The “who has time?” It's a complaint only became common after dual-income households were made the economic default. For most of history one parent stayed home and education was part of normal family life. Once both parents were pushed (was it really this or something else like feminism?) into paid work, time for anything else shrank by design. Parents already fund public schools through taxes. Homeschooling families simply refuse to outsource the job they are still paying for. Just look at what a single-income family could afford a generation or two ago. House, no crushing debt, and a parent at home. Now both adults work and families (and students) are still buried in debt. For me it is not progress and public schools are no longer primarily focused on reading, writing and arithmetic. They have increasingly become centres of ideological indoctrination, pushing progressive and Marxist frameworks onto children under the guise of education. This goes already off topic a lot and its 1000% something Harry & the lot are not concerned about or ever need to face.
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