Also, my kids would not have done as well at school - they would have been a lot more like the the other kids, so would not have improved all that much.
Not in the US, but some things are the same here in the UK, and in Sri Lanka where we lived for much of my kid's lives.
(Consider that public schools wouldn’t be a “worse education” if resources weren’t funneled away by private schools and home schooling.)
Those parents who can't find the time / motivation to spend some time doing learning activities with their kids really shouldn't have applied for the job of parent in the first place.
If more parents took ultimate responsibility for their kids learning outcomes teachers would be under less pressure, and would have more ability to provide extra help.
> really shouldn't have applied for the job of parent in the first place
Yeah, I mean if you plan on getting laid off from your career some day and have to work two jobs to make ends meet, you really shouldn't have kids. Having kids should only be reserved for people who plan on having no unforeseen issues ever come up in their life, am I right?
Parents should just take responsibility and make sure that they don't ever come across hard times. See also: the poor are just lazy.
Turning every response into a gotcha isn't incisive, there are plenty of other forums better suited than Hacker News if arguing and strawmanning is your thing. Chill out.
If every parent that does have the time to invest in their child’s future, takes said child out of public school, said schools are left with only the uninvolved parents, which makes it worse in a “self fulfilling prophecy” kind of way.
The arguments in favor of home schooling all seem to amount to “fuck you, not my problem, I take care of my own kid, you’re on your own.”