[sperry]

One thing I'll say about home schooling is that a ardent there has the chance if being taught be a teacher with a phd and a skill set that pulls in six figures that has a personal interest in the student's success. A public school student on the other hand is most likely getting taught by someone that's making $35k per year after getting the minimum required diploma that is required to pass all their students on to the next underpaid teacher at the end of the year.

Public school teachers are massively under appreciated, and I've got to believe that has to contribute to lower quality education no matter how dedicated the teachers are to their students. A good, dedicated parent (likely the type of person successful and smart enough to choose homeschooling in the first place) is probably going to be much more invested in the students success.

This wouldn't be a problem of course if as a society we valued education enough to pay teachers $100,000 a year thus making the job attractive to people other than the folks willing to do the work just because of their idealism. Imagine if those brilliant people that have learned how to eek out the massive profits by manipulating the global economy instead dedicated themselves to eeking out the very best from their high school students.

Another way to put it: if we spent the amount of money on education that we currently spend on our military, we could probably get away with spending the amount of money we currently spend on education on our military.