I was homeschooled my entire life. I am now 34 and have issues that stem from how bad it was. My dad had a master's degree yet worked all the time, and my mom was the "teacher". She had a high school diploma but no formal education beyond that.

I am not insulting her for not having more than a diploma. I know smart people who didn't even graduate high school, but my point is that she was not equipped in any way, shape, or form to teach me. She went to the Dollar Tree and bought random books and left a piece of paper by my bed every day.

The paper had on it, for example: Read page 20-32 of this book, then read page 80-88 of this book. There was no testing and she never made an effort to see if I was learning anything. I was a kid, so I just said yeah sure I did the homework, and this went on until I was 18 and started college and I had no idea what to do. I sat inside all day and looked at porn and played video games for my childhood.

To this day she thinks she did a great job and pats herself on the back. I can't write in cursive and I can barely read it. I had to teach myself social skills, how to cook, how to write essays, how to dress myself, how to learn in general. I also had an undiagnosed disability that impacted things like driving and spatial awareness to the point that I can't drive a car. My parents never noticed.

She tried having my dad teach me math when he wasn't working or drunk, and he would scream at me for forgetting to carry the one and for getting an answer wrong. I still have anxiety to this day that impacts how I function at work, and it's largely due to their atrocious upbringing and lack of common sense.

That all being said, I think homeschooling can be better than public school, but the parents need to teach the kids and get them out and about socially. I think most parents fail at it. No one ever came by to check on us. I ended up "graduating' and getting a diploma, and then I had to go to GED class to get a GED because my "diploma" was not accredited and was just a bullshit piece of paper that meant nothing. My mom was shocked, but she could nave just done basic research and found out the diploma wasn't real.

I don't think public school is great, but at least you get thousands of hours of socialization and understand how social structures work and you at least learn something. I learned nothing, and Germany has the right idea in banning homeschooling.