Public Schools Hate Homeschooling

Have you ever wondered why so many public school authorities hate parents who homeschool their children. Well, it is because homeschooling is very successful.

Homeschooling families pose a direct challenge to the monopoly that the public school has. This monopoly is what makes it nearly impossible to fire a tenured public school teacher or principal. This means that these tenured employees are almost guaranteed that they will have a job for life. They only get this incredible benefit because public schools are monopolizing our children’s education. If these teachers were to work for a private school they would not have this tenure and thus they would have to compete for their job. This is why public schools see homeschooling parents as a serious threat.

A lot of school officials also cannot stand the thought of an average parent who never attended college, much less attended college to become a teacher, being able to better educate their child than the public school experts could. These parents are able to give their children an education that is far superior to that which they would have received in the public schools. This humiliates the public school teachers, who are licensed to teach children, as it shows that these public school teachers have failed in comparison. This is humiliating for the public schools to admit.

Another reason for which a lot of public school officials resent homeschoolers is because the public school looses approximately $7,500 per year in tax money for each student that leaves the public school system. These public schools are highly dependant upon this tax money because it pays the employees’ salaries, benefits and pensions.