That, alone, is a stinging indictment of public education.
And, usually spending about the total daily time required for just the assigned homework from a public school.
This is not what actually happens. For example, the parents who actually do this are not random.
> The most common reason cited for homeschooling (before the pandemic) was concern about the local school environment,
I would guess the sample is spoiled because one doesn’t tend to homeschool if your public school is adequate.
Still, even if you ignore that, outcomes are far less impressive than you’re making them sound.
> children in “unstructured” homeschool environments without organized lesson plans tend to score lower than children in conventional schools.
So this unschooling thing qualifies as unstructured which means worse scores than conventional schools.
But that’s just test scores.
Overall outcomes are not super impressive.
> In addition, most studies have found no difference between homeschooled and conventional students in college graduation rates. However, most homeschooled students do not attend competitive four-year colleges and one study found that homeschooled students may have lower math GPAs in college than children from conventional schools. Children who are homeschooled may also be more likely to work in a lower-paying job.
So to sum up, homeschooled kids might test better, unless they are “unschooled,” and they’ll probably have a lower paying job.
And I find this terribly unimpressive for having a far better student teacher ratio than public school.
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-translator...
I guess my point being - it’s not ‘random parents’ in your example, it’s parents that are already in a position to be able to and to be willing to deliver a child though a k-12 curriculum with superior outcomes.