@icedquinn @Hyolobrika @gabriel Homeschooling is great, if you can afford hiring help. I was "homeschooled" until I was 8 and I knew how to read and write fluently and how to do multiplication and divination, draw and do basic crafts and stuff like that. Kids learn very fast if they have a teacher who devotes their time to teach them at their optimal pace. At schools the teacher's attention is divided to 30 people (or more if unlucky), which results in the class moving forward with the slowest student's pace. Or at the worst case the students doesn't get the help they need and falls behind.

It's very easy for a patient parent to homeschool their children UNTIL they get old enough to require teaching on complicated matters the parent isn't fluent in (advanced sciences, foreign languages, orientation towards a job in a field the parent has never worked in etc). It is then possible to hire help and continue with exemplary homeschooling, but let's be honest 99% of parents can't afford it.

I firmly do not believe in homework and "study alone at your own time" school system. I did go to Steiner school which is way more classroom and teacher oriented (kids don't get homework and they don't even have books until mid-teens). Steiner school has some issues too, mainly that it is very art focused and... that brings some weird things to the curriculum lol Great for kids, not so for high school students.