Everyone knows that getting splinters can lead to infection. By now, you as a homeschooling parent might be saying to yourself that this kind of thinking is crazy. You would be correct. But it is exactly the kind of stinky thinking that keeps the existing educational system in place and it is exactly what you are up against when you argue with an educator or defend homeschooling in front of an educator or school official. Homeschooling parents should not be arguing or debating with educators over whether children should be homeschooled or not.
Educators are incapable of an intelligent, reality-oriented response.
Educators falsely assume that everyone who graduates from high school is going to do well. This is one of the myths underlying the existing educational structure. What is implied in this myth is that high school graduates do not use drugs, commit crime, become mentally ill, commit suicide, become alcoholics or do dishonest and corrupt things. But the truth is that high school graduates do become drug addicts and alcoholics. They do commit crimes, and they do corrupt and dishonest things.