Here's the thing:

Socialization is just an obvious easy issue for people to use, but nobody actually wants to have in-depth discussions on the issues of public, private, and homeschooling actually are.

I know from both personal experiences and the experiences of family and friends for all of those methods, and my grandfather has seen the gamut of what they are like, and none of them are ideal.

Homeschooling becoming more popular as of late is more just a reaction to the disastrous political unraveling of the US education system to the point where kids are being literally indoctrinated into leftism and grooming (and falling standards thanks to Common Core), but in terms of actual educational prowess and understanding, homeschooling is not anything impressive by any means.

Even intelligent parents generally can't effectively teach and homeschool their kids, its just less harmful compared to the dumb/average parents doing it. The problem is largely parental egos and arrogance, using contrarianism against the educational system system to justify essentially leaving their kids unprepared for a world that would fuck them in the ass if they aren't exposed to it. If they have the money and ability to get multiple private tutors, maybe that's different, but things like online classes or educational materials, even from prestigious places, aren't gonna help kids do well in the real world, and has ultimately dubious educational value, if that.

Public schools are wide and varied in their issues, really depending on location and populace, but so are their standards and quality of education. Someone who thinks the education quality of a public school in an upper middle class suburb is in any way comparable to an inner city public school is delusional, for example. They can be shit, they can be mediocre, they can be good, they can be great. It really depends on where you look and how good the area is.

Private schools standards are generally nonexistent, the teachers aren't under requirements to have qualifications and you'll be lucky if you get any increased value over a public school (and in fact you're more likely to get fucked than not). My grandfather put my aunt in a catholic private school, found out they weren't teaching her jack Its lucky if you can find a private school, but essentially you would probably need a gated community of super-elites to have a chance of it being an actually good school, because there are plenty of expensive private schools that are just bad.

Here's the thing:

Socialization is just an obvious easy issue for people to use, but nobody actually wants to have in-depth discussions on the issues of public, private, and homeschooling actually are.

I know from both personal experiences and the experiences of family and friends for all of those methods, and my grandfather has seen the gamut of what they are like, and none of them are ideal.

Homeschooling becoming more popular as of late is more just a reaction to the disastrous political unraveling of the US education system to the point where kids are being literally indoctrinated into leftism and grooming (and falling standards thanks to Common Core), but in terms of actual educational prowess and understanding, homeschooling is not anything impressive by any means.

Even intelligent parents generally can't effectively teach and homeschool their kids, its just less harmful compared to the dumb/average parents doing it. The problem is largely parental egos and arrogance, using contrarianism against the educational system system to justify essentially leaving their kids unprepared for a world that would fuck them in the ass if they aren't exposed to it. If they have the money and ability to get multiple private tutors, maybe that's different, but things like online classes or educational materials, even from prestigious places, aren't gonna help kids do well in the real world.

Public schools are wide and varied in their issues, really depending on location and populace, but so are their standards and quality of education. Someone who thinks the education quality of a public school in an upper middle class suburb is in any way comparable to an inner city public school is delusional, for example. They can be shit, they can be mediocre, they can be good, they can be great. It really depends on where you look and how good the area is.

Private schools standards are generally nonexistent, the teachers aren't under requirements to have qualifications and you'll be lucky if you get any increased value over a public school (and in fact you're more likely to get fucked than not). My grandfather put my aunt in a catholic private school, found out they weren't teaching her jack Its lucky if you can find a private school, but essentially you would probably need a gated community of super-elites to have a chance of it being an actually good school, because there are plenty of expensive private schools that are just bad.