The risks of homeschooling
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling"A RAPIDLY INCREASING number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them at home. Homeschooled kids now account for roughly 3 percent to 4 percent of school-age children in the United States, a number equivalent to those attending charter schools, and larger than the number currently in parochial schools.
Yet Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of the Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, sees risks for children—and society—in homeschooling, and recommends a presumptive ban on the practice. Homeschooling, she says, not only violates children’s right to a “meaningful education” and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society.
“We have an essentially unregulated regime in the area of homeschooling,” Bartholet asserts. All 50 states have laws that make education compulsory, and state constitutions ensure a right to education, “but if you look at the legal regime governing homeschooling, there are very few requirements that parents do anything.” Even apparent requirements such as submitting curricula, or providing evidence that teaching and learning are taking place, she says, aren’t necessarily enforced. Only about a dozen states have rules about the level of education needed by parents who homeschool, she adds. “That means, effectively, that people can homeschool who’ve never gone to school themselves, who don’t read or write themselves.” In another handful of states, parents are not required to register their children as homeschooled; they can simply keep their kids at home.
This practice, Bartholet says, can isolate children. She argues that one benefit of sending children to school at age four or five is that teachers are “mandated reporters,” required to alert authorities to evidence of child abuse or neglect. “Teachers and other school personnel constitute the largest percentage of people who report to Child Protective Services,” she explains, whereas not one of the 50 states requires that homeschooling parents be checked for prior reports of child abuse. Even those convicted of child abuse, she adds, could “still just decide, ‘I’m going to take my kids out of school and keep them at home.’”...(more)
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in most cases...we agree for sure. 
FFS 
There is simply no better choice for your child to receive a top notch education than your local public school. Expertly trained professional teachers. A curriculum crafted by the top experts at the DoEd. Teachers who are willing to give your kids frank and scientifically backed information on reproductive health. And most importantly a safe place for your children to avoid being mind-controlled by religious nutsos and conspiracy theorists.
Frankly, the evidence shows that home schooling, in almost all instances, borders on a form of child abuse. As more parents pull their kids out due to misinformation, it's our responsibility to crack down on rampant home schooling fervor.
A good place to start is a DoEd crafted training program that home schooling parents must pass. We have mandatory college for barbers but somehow parents can educate their kids without training and a license? 
