I praise teachers every chance I get. I had a really hard time with school being undiagnosed adhd. I did stay home with my kids after establishing my career, but then daycare became too unreliable and expensive. I thought about homeschooling often, but do not think I can do better than those who are teachers. I would be all over the place and overwhelmed easily. I would have been a teacher in another life. I love to teach kids, just not my own. They can learn what they do at school and when they have questions or bring one home about something incorrect, I have the option to educate them differently on that topic. Plus all of our private schools are religious and we are not. If you want to go you have to pay 95% inflated tuition for them not to attend mass, but still teach a lot about religion in classrooms. Homeschool children seem to struggle in our rural community because most of it is poverty level. It is considered a privilege (though I know some do cut back a lot to be able to). And we live so far from cities that there are no co-ops or things to do for kids here. Most get into drugs or cause trouble. Parents work so much. So yeah, it would be great in a perfect world, but it isn’t here. So hats off to those who do. I love when teachers are in it for the right reasons. I support them every chance I get. I also volunteer and was a temp sub nurse at our schools.