Hi

[cute Annie]

That, along with 3 other reasons, made me realize "HOMEschooling" was the only viable & intelligent choice. 
yeah, and how did that work out? - Well,
kiddo (along with 70+ other students in my influence) graduated, from college, with highest honors, while yet in their teens.

We will have to agree to disagree on that (at least in the current circumstances); the government has stuck their fingers/nose/??? into it so much with requirements of what MUST be taught when in homeschooling now that American homeschooling is only slightly better than a more "traditional" education.

MUCH more effective and beneficial (and probably closer to what you experienced/influenced), imo, is what is now termed "radical un-schooling", "world-schooling", or "road-schooling" where the student (of whatever age) directs more of what is taught/learned when then a set curriculum that needs to be followed on a specific time frame.

Hi Rock,
True this "the student (of whatever age) directs more of what is taught/learned when" amounts to a happy dance...
Start here https://www.johnholtgws.com/unschooling-children/ See, we learn ALL the time, starting in the womb, an established fact.
iow learning is INnate, it is a Natural ability, & so continues ...
(unless
some fool aka as a "professional" f's it all up, as they do day in & day out. And those fools do try my patience).

True with the parent supplying
1. own passionate... continual learning - which the child/ren subconsciously Imprint... Example is the foundation.
2. abundant healthy choices: parental love & attention, optimal foods, scholastic development, other friendships,
3. cheerleading child/rens continual own subconscious relationship. This is huge.
4. guiding their explorations in the wider world safely.
etc. Such FREED, empowered, & enabled child/ren's "traditional" test-scores are generally in the 80's, &
were in our group in the 90's easily. Mostly they finished quickly, & bored whispered "what an insult to my basic intelligence".

LOL