It's so bogus that negative perceptions of public school are ruining the homeschool community. When I started homeschooling my kid something like a decade ago there were a lot more genuinely interested parents homeschooling their kids, now it's mostly political ideology. Bad parents using homeschooling as an excuse to neglect their kids because the school will teach them sex ed or something?

In the last few years I put my kids into a modified public school program, the co-op is ruined