I think that besides the academic aspect, there’s the far more important aspect that school is the place where kids interact with their peers and learn to grow up and be people. I honestly don’t think any level of academic education can compensate for the loss that individual kid will experience if they end up missing out on growing up with their peers.

This is the kind of thing that honestly makes me a bit shocked that homeschooling is something anyone would expose their child to (bar extreme circumstances). I can’t imagine how bad it would be for a kid to lose the by far most important arena for socialisation during extended parts of their childhood. Like, that’s tantamount to abuse. There’s no other situation where we would allow someone to more or less completely prevent their child from having any interaction with their peers.

Of course, as with anything, there can be circumstances where otherwise extreme or unacceptable things can be justified, I’m not considering those situations here.