Disadvantages of homeschooling

One main disadvantage of homeschooling is that children miss socialization and interactions with other
children. This interaction is crucial to a child’s development especially in developing social skills.
Homeschooling is tedious and requires parents to forego other activities and job opportunities to
educate their children. It requires parents to learn each subject, organize class activities, develop
curricula and grade their children among other things. This is challenging when a parents has many
children at different levels of education. Some parents choose homeschooling assuming that they can
do better than fully trained tutors can. This is not always the case and their children either obtain low
quality education or miss some key lessons and skills taught by professional tutors.