Setting aside whether homeschooling is a better option overall (it’s obvious that results may vary) — most families don’t have the luxury of dedicating one parent to being a full-time teacher.
A bare minimum condition of making the homeschooling solution “scalable,” as programmers like to say, is retooling our economy away from the “two-income trap” that Elizabeth Warren described. In short, the American economy has been rigged against workers to the point that in many families, both spouses have to work. If both spouses are working, there’s nobody at home to be a full-time teacher.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two-Income_Trap
Another solution? Moving away from the relatively new “nuclear family” ideal, back to the “extended family” that served as the basic unit of families for most of American history. Perhaps a retired grandparent could pitch in to teach the kids. David Brooks described what we’ve lost by severing the extended family.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/605536/
Until then, there is no alternative to making public schools work. Whether they’re currently failing is beside the point. We have to make them work, or our society is toast. We’ll fall behind on international competitiveness, and we’ll lose touch with our nation’s civic foundations.
Query whether that’s already happening when a substantial minority of Americans can be led by a demagogue (not naming names) to believe the Vice-President is constitutionally capable of overturning the certified results of an election.
One simple fix? Raise taxes a bit and pay teachers the professional salaries they deserve.
After all — “It takes a village!”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village
