I mean it’s fair - you need support systems to support it at the best of times.
In NZ there is the NZ correspondence school for children that can’t get to a physical school.
It provides the curriculum, materials, textbooks, grading, etc.
But the US treats homeschooling as a system to allow parents to indoctrinate kids rather than actually teach them so provides no such support (even though their are people who are homeschooled due to actual need and whose parents want their kids to be educated).
Couple that lack of support, with the lack of choice or real warning, and that many parents still do have to work and you’ve got a quagmire that is understandably overwhelming.
In NZ there is the NZ correspondence school for children that can’t get to a physical school.
It provides the curriculum, materials, textbooks, grading, etc.
But the US treats homeschooling as a system to allow parents to indoctrinate kids rather than actually teach them so provides no such support (even though their are people who are homeschooled due to actual need and whose parents want their kids to be educated).
Couple that lack of support, with the lack of choice or real warning, and that many parents still do have to work and you’ve got a quagmire that is understandably overwhelming.