A lot of people still assume homeschooling is just full of extreme religious indoctrination and ignorance but it’s very robust and versatile these days. Had I known the tools we have available and the quality of the online classes, I’d have started doing it sooner and saved a lot of money on private schools that weren’t as good.

The most useful and important aspect is that kids build their executive functioning as they make goals, choose classes and get involved in their own education plan. It’s not just something to ship your kid off while you go to the factory to work all day; it can be a real education.

Also, while friends of ours had to watch their kid’s school get cleared by a swat team because of a call about a gun, my kid was in online class, learning about horse pathology with another kid from Australia.