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I can only speak from my experience with it, which largely centers around Catholic people doing it for religious motivation. I think that particular reason for it is shoddy as hell and has more in common with cults than anything else.

I could maybe see a legitimate argument for it in the context of a country as reactionary as the US if somebody was socialist and wanting to keep their kid away from the reactionary teachings, but even then, you can just get a dynamic going of talking to the kid regularly about what they're learning and helping them understand it in the context of capitalism and all that (once they're old enough to grasp it). But that's not a real manifestation of it that I've personally heard of, only speculative.

Tbh, it's kinda hard for me to look at the issue in a more detached way because it's pretty personal for me. My parents are not horrible abusive people or something, but homeschooling was probably one of the more bad parenting decisions they made and it's hard not to wonder sometimes about what I may have missed out on, not going to school. Can't undo it now, so it seems pointless to wallow in that kind of thing, but it can still hurt. Just the plain fact that I can't talk to another peer and go, ya know, "Yeah, when I was in school, it was like this" and bond over similar experiences. Because I didn't. I can try to do similar for going to university, but not for my childhood. Or that I didn't have "friends from school". I know those friendships don't always last through to adulthood, but it's like, I didn't even have that at all to build off of socially. I had siblings, which was something, but that's not confidence-building in the same way as "you made friends with someone you didn't know".

But then on the other hand, there are people who did go to public school, who still didn't have many friends, or even had an abusive relationship with another kid that held them back socially. So idk. Fucking capitalism...