i believe that the average homeschooled student is not getting adequate enough education due to the fact that homeschooling is largely unregulated and not closely monitored the way it is for students who attend schools. schools have objectives, benchmarks, learning standards, assessments (both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced), incentives, clubs and activities, positive behavior support plans and MOST IMPORTANTLY, educators who are TRAINED AND LICENSED to teach and evaluate the criteria students need to learn, which most homeschooled students lack bc their parents aren’t required to put in the same amount of learning to teach a homeschooled student, which is extremely unfair to said student. I believe some states actually require parents to have some proof of homeschool license in order for them to homeschool their children but because there’s no overall requirement or standards, that is how i know its unregulated and untenable for the wellbeing of a growing students education.
also to go past the educational aspects of homeschooling vs attending a public or private institution, i believe a student would greatly benefit from attending a school because they need to be around peers their own age and so that they can interact, learn from and collaborate which also contributes to their overall growth. a homeschooled student, if they don’t have siblings who are also homeschooled, and or any type of age mate in their immediate vicinity, is going to lack that obvious built-in peer-to-peer correspondence that regular students get.
