Thoughts on homeschooling?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

In my observations, homeschooling is rarely if ever about giving the child a proper educations and more about controlling the content that reaches the child, usually for religious reasons. Doing it simply to indoctrinate your child into your religion is reprehensible in my opinion.

I agree. But you have to keep in mind that the parents are completely delusional. They think they're doing "God's work." They can't see it as indoctrination at all.

I remember one sad case...this homeschooled kid was in was in this family that lived on a farm. The family were Gothards which is one of those sorts of Christian cults that separate almost completely from modern society. They dress almost like amish and they're strongly patriarchal. Women are little more than seamstress and breeding machines in this cult. We knew this family through a church we were at temporarily and they asked if my mom could teach their son for little bit. In the school time we had with the kid, when we got to the science time we found out this kid (at age 12) had no knowledge of the planets, the orbit of the earth around the sun, or the massive size of the sun. He didn't know what a solar system was or galaxies. We showed him pictures of all this stuff and he was in utter disbelief. I would expect the average kid nowadays by that age would have known all of those facts.