I don’t know who this person is, but his anti-homeschooling tweets keep making their way into my feed. So, I think I’m going to deal with them here. I doubt he’ll see my response, or care, for that matter. But for those who do care, here goes.

Here’s his claim: “Universally, 100% of the time, homeschooling is the worst option for every single child. Without exception.”

It’s a bold claim—”universally, 100% of the time, homeschooling is the worst option for every single child. Without exception.”

Really? Not a single exception in the entirety of human experience?

This declaration is so desperately hyperbolic that it circles back and contradicts itself, despite the author’s insistence otherwise. If the goal was to provoke outrage, mission accomplished. If the goal was to engage in a reasoned discussion, then this opening gambit fails spectacularly.

Let’s dismantle this rubbish, brick by brick.

First, let’s talk about the sweeping nature of the claim. To say “100% of the time” is to claim omniscient insight into every family, every child, every educational setting, across time, culture, and circumstance. Who among us possesses that kind of godlike knowledge? Certainly not some self-righteous liberal on Twitter.

The arrogance of this statement is both incredible and laughably self-defeating. For every anecdote of a failed homeschool experiment, there exists a counter-example of a homeschool success story—stories of children thriving academically, emotionally, and spiritually in a nurturing home environment that public schools could never replicate.

A 2021 Harvard study on homeschooling actually confirms exactly that. Homeschoolers are not the socially maladjusted hermits the critics love to portray them as. They are, statistically speaking, happy, well-rounded, and civically engaged and, more often than not, outperform their public school counterparts academically and in mental health and social well-being.

Yet, by the logic of his assertion, we are to dismiss the homeschooler who invents groundbreaking technologies, writes Pulitzer-worthy prose, or becomes a compassionate doctor, rooted in a strong moral framework.

According to this study, homeschoolers are more likely to volunteer, more likely to engage with their communities, and just as likely to excel in higher education. These are the fruits of an education tailored to the child, free from the chaos, bureaucracy, and the toxic influences that dominate public schools.

So, to anyone parroting the narrative that homeschooling is “universally the worst,” I’d suggest they read the research—assuming, of course, they have the intellectual humility to confront their own bias. There are numerous studies that refute his claims.

Let’s move on to the baseless assumption underlying this claim, that public schools are inherently superior. This is where the cracks in the argument widen into chasms. Public schools—which are overrun with secular ideologies, plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency, and crippled by safety concerns—are hardly the shining exemplars of educational excellence.

If public schools were such utopian learning centers, why do so many parents feel compelled to remove their children from them in the first place? Are we to ignore the violence, the peer pressure, the ideological and sexual, indoctrination, the overcrowded classrooms, and the overworked teachers that define so much of the public school experience? Pretending these issues don’t exist is either dishonest at best or completely delusional.

For the Christian, though, let’s turn to the heart of the matter—the biblical perspective. God commands parents to raise their children in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). This responsibility cannot be delegated to some taxpayer-funded LGBTQ activists who have infiltrated the classrooms of elementary schools, many of whom come to work dressed like sex clowns with purple hair and rainbow-splattered attire ready to spoil your children with their preferred pronouns.

Homeschooling gives parents the freedom to instill a Christ-centered worldview, ensuring their children are not conformed to the destructive patterns of this world but transformed by the renewing of their minds (Romans 12:2). To argue that this is “the worst option” is not just an insult to homeschooling parents, it’s an affront to God’s design for parental responsibility and authority.

The tweet also betrays an ignorance of the diversity within homeschooling. Not all homeschooling looks the same. Some families follow a rigorous curriculum that far exceeds public school standards. Others join co-ops that provide group learning experiences. The beauty of homeschooling lies in its flexibility and its ability to be tailored to the needs of the individual child—something no public school, no matter how well-funded or staffed, can achieve. Reducing homeschooling to a caricature of isolation and ignorance is not just lazy, it’s willfully misleading.

So, before we accept the pontifications of an online critic who has likely never actually met a homeschooled child or family, let’s take a hard look at what’s really being presented here. It’s certainly not a reasoned argument, it’s a desperate bid for attention wrapped in a flimsy facade of certitude.

And much like public schools that promise much but deliver little, this claim collapses under the weight of its own inconsistencies. Homeschooling is not perfect, but to declare it the “worst option” for every child? That’s not just ridiculous—it’s stupid.