So right before our eyes we have seen very recently the perception shift of homeschooling, which was for decades considered even more “elite” than catholic or private schools. To 2023 where anyone who dares homeschooling is “a religious nut”, “depriving their children of a real education”, and on an on. As homeschooling became more prevalent with conservatives it became less of a “gold standard” in education to an “Alex Jones Q anon indoctrination camp”.
Semi related: this all came about because I’m watching old South Park and season 3 episode 12 showed perfectly how “homeschooling” kids were perceived, all intellectual and no social skills.
Home schooling hasn't shed the reputation that was attached to it 40 years ago. Ask a normie about it and you get the standard "they will be unsocialized religious nuts" line.
Once upon a time this might have even been true. Not now. Homeschool is organized now, with the rise of the internet. Homeschool kids have access to all the organized sports and clubs that public school kids do. They have access to chemistry labs, and local home school parents can team up in a micro-school and get tutors to cover advanced subjects that a parent cannot do.
Home schooling has gotten much more popular because of COVID, where parents all across the country were exposed to what their kids teachers were doing in class rooms. We're talking double digit growth compared to pre-COVID numbers.
What home schooling does is insulate your kids from the worst aspect of public schools. They don't have to learn at the same slow pace as the 85 IQ mongoloid, they don't have to waste valuable learning time as the class clown acts up in class, and they don't have to deal with the lord of the flies aspect of socialization that is built in to public schools. Smarter kids really benefit from home schooling because they can learn at their pace, at their level, without the class idiot making them bored to tears.