Yes, I think it's a really big job to educate children - that's why teachers have to train, right? It's also a big ask for parents to be generalists, there's a reason why we have different teachers for each subject in secondary education. I'm not against homeschooling at all, done right, but I do think a lot of people underestimate how hard it is to do it well.

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Sarah FitzGerald
Sarah FitzGerald

Written by Sarah FitzGerald

I write funny things about parenting and well researched things about linguistics

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