You provided a study from a less than unbiased source and are now complaining about the cost of this and that.
You are not answering the question(s) I asked. You are wasting a lot of band width ignoring/ avoiding my question.
Further where I come from we address each other as Sir, Ma,am, or Miss as the case may be. That is how I was raised, it is called being polite.
Have a good day Sir.
The real issue here, though, is why **professional** educators have so little professional and intellectual curiosity that they have ignored studying homeschooling and adults who have been homeschooled. They have the financial resources and experience to do so even though homeschooling has grown ( in one generation) to comprise 4% of school aged children.
And...Another very important issue is that the **profession** of educators has NEVER studied its **own** system of government socialist-entitlement schooling. It has NEVER determined how much of a student's learning is acquired in the classroom as compared to that acquired though the hard work of the parents, the child, or tutors IN THE HOME due to afterschooling and preschooling.
Without knowing the contribution of afterschooling to standardized test scores, parents may be making huge sacrifices in home expenses and long commutes to work for government schools that claim to be “good” but may not be in any way. The schools may have high test scores due to the hard work of the parents, child, and tutors in afterschooling.
As an engineer, you should see that spending up to $30,000/year/child on an untested educational strategy is not a good idea.
By the way, my title is Doctor.