“Private school is costly and home schooling is time consuming especially if you have two working parents.”
Homeschooling IS time-consuming. And can be difficult. And often requires significant sacrifice. Absolutely.
Yet, it is a gift that parents give to their children and to themselves. Families that manage to homeschool reap rewards out of all proportion to the sacrifices made.
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Personally, I have **never** met an academically successful child who wasn't either homeschooled or afterschooled.
Both homeschooling and afterschooling require a lot of work. Afterschooling is actually harder, though, since the child is tired from being in school and a lot of indoctrination must be undone.
By the way, I was a doctor in and owner of a large health clinic. During my career, I likely had contact with several thousand families. Because I wanted ideas on how to make my own family life more effective, I would ask successful parents about their home habits and values, and their study routines for their children.
Honestly...In all those years of working with families, I have **never** met an academically successful child who was not either homeschooled or afterschooled. Even my foreign patients, they too were afterschooling. They found help from their nationality clubs, relatives, neighbors, friends, and older children. Their kids were more likely to be active in study clubs.
My conclusion: Government schools are not teaching children anything. They are sending home a tuition-free curriculum. It is the parents who doing 99.99% of the hard work of actually making sure their kids learn.