Complex sentence: Many parents prefer that their children are educated at a community-run temple school, and in the absence thereof, may opt for home education, seeing enrollment in a state school as an undesirable but not an uncommon last resort.
Split into simpler sentences: Many parents prefer that their children are educated at a community-run temple school, and in the absence thereof, may opt for home education. Enrollment in a state school as an undesirable but not uncommon last resort.