They acknowledge that, in a few cases, home schooling offers educational opportunities superior to those found in most public schools, but few parents can provide such educational advantages.

Home tutoring was common in the families of the nobility and wealthy, and bullying and corporal punishment were common at the best independent schools.

Now, only 3 percent of families follow the agricultural model, but nearly all schools are scheduled as if our children went home early to milk the cows and took months off to work the crops.