I want to look more into this, but it always makes me laugh at the hill people will die on with either party when the data/evidence is clearly the opposite of what they think. Doesn't matter your party, beliefs, etc. What I found especially surprising, though, was that we are seeing a growing diversity in the people who homeschool. So many people, myself included, have a certain set of people come to mind, but that is not the case at all.
People I knew growing up who were homeschooled cover the whole stretch of political ideology, so I can't help but laugh when people try to pin them to one specific group. Sure, it might have been that way in the past, but that is not how it is in the present, and instead of researching and learning about the topic, people lock in on their out-of-date views. Gotta love when people talk out of their asses.
My wife and I are strongly considering home schooling. We are in one of the worst states for education, and also our state is becoming quite purple and educating on woke ideologies unfortunately.
I knew more homeschoolers growing up than I did public schoolers, and each side seemed to think the other got a worse education. As far as I could tell there was just more variance within homeschoolers. A lot of parents homeschooled their kinds because they wanted to do a better job than the schools, so there was a bit of self selection for over achievers. At the same time there were parents who only chose homeschooling for religious reasons, and the kids ended up getting away with barely the equivalent of a high-school education. The latter seems to be the reason most pro public school people think of, when in my anecdotal experience the former seemed a bit more common, with the most common being both reasons.
At uni it seemed to me that both methods of schooling were perfectly capable of producing good engineers. Though I had one or two experiences where a smart friend who went to public school, asked me questions about homeschooling, thinking ahead for their own children, as they had recognized the public schools had not allowed them to realize their full potential.
tbh, the homeschooled people that I've met are, on average, better adjusted and more intelligent than the non-homeschooled people I've met.
Doesn't that sum up most of politics these days, regardless of party? The high majority are more swayed by what showed up on their social media feed than taking the time to actually look up and read a report summary, much less the data report itself, God forbid.
It's about money of course, need to protect their comrades at the state level
If you could take your property taxes and walk it's be the end of the teacher's unions and all the money laundering that goes through local districts
I've lived in several states and every one 75% of property taxes go to the schools