HOT TAKE ALERT

I don’t think making huge sweeping statements is appropriate, but I do see your point at the same time.

My take is that “Home schooling”doesn’t ALWAYS equal the parents being the only teachers the children encounter 🤷‍♀️

a lot of parents who decide to home school are very willing to hire tutors (who are typically retired educators) when they feel out of their depth.

And I want to add that social media has become a horrible horrible representation of homeschooling. You have so many people on there and so many "influencers", that are giving homeschooling a bad name. Here in the UK, it is heavily regulated and you have to send in constant reports and proof of what you are doing, you have to prove you have a curriculum in place that meets the education standards etc etc. And as said, a lot of families get personal tutors. I see it a lot in a homeschooling group I am in (there are 183k members)

I think that home schooling just needs more monitoring to make sure minimums are met. Like your child is learning to read and write and anything else required to live and you yourself are able to do those things too. I personally don't feel educated enough to home school though.

I don’t think you have to be a “licensed educator” but I do think you need to be qualified to do a proper job. As a teacher my BEST and WORST students were homeschooled previously. There really is such a spectrum of success and it is very contingent upon having qualified parents.

I think you should have to take a test if you want to homeschool. How should we expect someone to teach kids the minimum if they don't even know it? A mom in my town was going to homeschool because she felt her kid was labeled the 'problem child' (her child had a long list of things they did that got them in trouble). The mom made it a month teaching her kid and couldn't handle it and sent her kid back to school. The mom did not know the basics of what she needed to teach her kid because she messed around in school and would do LITERALLY anything to get out of doing her work in high school. Like mother like child I guess.

I have worked with plenty of teachers with a degree in education that don’t do a brilliant job 🙃

I do however think monitoring should be more rigorous, here in the UK it varies by local authority and the gov guidance has not been updated in a long time compared to the other guidance that schools are governed by. The LA I work for (in a school) does not in any way demand constant reports or evidence, and their policy is aligned to the gov guidance in that none of the reporting is statutory, and in my experience, unless you have a child with SEND, previous attendance concerns or ongoing safeguarding concerns, they honestly aren’t that interested in what you are or aren’t doing with home ed.

Agreed but it’s more than a degree too that is needed. In the US there are virtually no regulations or monitoring or keeping track. There needs to be a way to hold the patents accountable too.