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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Educated homeschoolers are posting in response to OP's question to push back against the stereotype that only uneducated religious extremists homeschool.[/quote]

+1, I don't homeschool but the homeschool families I know all have highly educated parents who have done it for reasons like:

- escaping bullying or serious inadequacies in local public school, sometimes as a bridge before moving or transferring to private (these examples involve school situations that were really bad and required immediate action, though sometimes the family discovered that home school was a great option and stuck with it past the immediate urgent need)
- to support a child's interest in a demanding extra-curricular, like very serious musicians or dancers who are at a pre-professional level, and homeschooling facilitates an intense practice and performance schedule that would be hard to undertake with a traditional school
- one parent has a job that moves the family to an area with inadequate schools and the other (educated) parent homeschools because the opportunity is too good to pass on, in most cases this has involved an international move that also facilitated a lot of travel and amazing experiences for the kids so it's not just about an opportunity for the one parent, it's like a way of doing a once in a lifetime family experience with sacrificing education
- one parent is an actual teacher with high or very specific education standards and figures, I know how to do this anyway why not for my own kids. More likely if the teacher parent's background is Montessori or something like that which is different from traditional education, and also more likely for early grades but kids will go to regular schools for later elementary and definitely MS/HS.

I've never met a stereotypical religious extremist homeschooling family. I'm sure they exist, but I wouldn't assume that was the situation if I met a family and all I knew about them was that they homeschooled.[/quote]

I know four families that pulled their kids out of the traditional system.  One had a world-class skier traveling to international events, another a musician traveling to international competitions, and the third a guy who sold his company for a billion $$$s, bought a 150-foot yacht, and sailed the world for a year.

The fourth family formed a learning pod during Covid where a professional teacher was hired and a group of 5 elementary kids are taught by this teacher.  This situation will end at middle school.

NONE of these families would ever say they homeschooled their kids...that is absolutely not how they define their situation.  They pulled their kids out of the institutional education framework, but just replaced it with private tutors and privately paid teachers.

This clearly touches a nerve, but there may be the "legal" definition and then there is the what the OP and I would argue most people understand as homeschooling.[/quote]

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