Excellent point about homeschooling providing a safe haven for some children they wouldn’t otherwise have had. I’m thinking about Trans youth in Florida in particular right now.

Kids with particular talents also benefit. A lot of time in school is wasted. Homeschooling gives them more time to hone their talent.

Parents who have to work odd schedules don’t have to deal with school schedules. They have more family time with home schooling.

Families that travel or live remote benefit from homeschooling.

Kids who want to pursue certain careers can benefit from home schooling. The saved time can open up opportunities for apprenticeships to gain practical experience, special studies that wouldn’t otherwise be available to them, some start of college coursework, they have time to go to camps, etc.

There are as many or more kids who thrive with homeschooling as ones who don’t. There are kids who slip through the cracks of public and private school systems every damn day.

The problem is religious extremism, not home schooling. Religious extremists cause the same problems in educational institutions. Think of the stories of abuse from Catholic schools and residential schools. Evangelical, Mormon, and other fundamentalist schools are just the latest iteration of that same old story, whether they establish a home school or build one within or next to a church.

The problem is the religion.