I was homeschooled from the 9th grade onward.

It's honestly the biggest regret of my life.

I knew it was a mistake shortly after it started sixteen years ago, but at the time I felt like it was too late to go back on the decision. I never learned a thing in the couple of years of home schooling I went through. I was never really taught anything at all. It turns out that a parent who was rarely motivated to do anything more than sit on the couch and watch TV wasn't the best teacher for a kid who had lost interest in school from frustration and boredom.

I wish I would've pushed for attending the alternative school in the area instead. Maybe they could've helped me where I needed it, helped me catch up where I had fallen behind and help re-ignite my interest in topics that I found too easy and therefore boring. Maybe socially I wouldn't have ended up with so many insecurities and crippling complexes. But I'll never know.

My stance on the home schooling of others is basically this: if you're going to do it with your kids, you have to put in the effort. A quick read through of the instructions of the day's assignment to your kid before you piss off to watch TV is not going to fucking cut it. You have to go above and beyond to make sure they're learning and learning correctly. If you can do that AND make sure the kid has plenty of time around others outside of the home to learn and grow socially, then it'll probably work out fine. But if you can't do it all, then you really shouldn't try it and should pursue another option instead.