It is possible in Austria though. We’ve met a group of people who’ve kept at it post-COVID enforced periods of lockdown homeschooling, because it worked so well for their children. The parents take turns supervising the group and I think they also employ a part-time private teacher for oversight.
>That's because public schooling was initially invented by industrialists as a way to control the populace and get them to be good little factory workers and to avoid rebellions.
are you sure about this? industrialists were adamantly against mandatory school because that pulled the kids out of the factory into the schools.
It is frequent home schooling talking point. I don't think it is history at all, the history of schooling is waaay more complicated. Homeschooling is largely ideological, frequent motivation is to keep kids inside religious or other similar bubble. However, those who homeschool for ideological reasons need to demonize public schools and its origins.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_international_st...