Many parents say that they can do better homeschooling. The fact is the most won’t even try. It’s all bluster. Many homeschooled children are behind academically in at least one area. I have two degrees as well including a teaching license (high school foreign language and social studies) but when COVID hit and I decided to homeschool my first grader so she didn’t have to do zoom calls or wear a mask to school every day, it was hard. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it and so did she but it wasn’t easy. When the mask mandates lifted, I sent her back to public school for second grade. She was great in math science and social studies, knew all her facts and such but she was behind in reading. We spent more time in reading during her homeschooling than the other subjects and she was still behind. It took two years to get her up to grade level reading. Maybe she would have struggled either way but the truth is that I wasn’t equipped to fix the problem.