To find the homeschooling fad really braggy

That sounds like classic insecure/ unsure of her decision/ needing to justify it to herself behaviour!

I don’t think so - I mean I don’t know anyone who homeschools but it’s never seemed that way to me.

I think people who come across as braggy or arrogant are usually just quite insecure in their decision, which bearing in mind the enormity of taking such a decision counter to what the majority of people do, is understandable.

Each to their own, in my view.

(Although I do think there should be tight scrutiny of it, so that that minority of kids who are actually being abused and it hidden by HS can be picked up - as one child slipping through the net is too many!)

A friend of the family homeschools her children. She’s also an online influencer with quite a lot of followers. I wouldn’t say she brags per se but she makes comments about the “poor kids who are stuck in the school system” and she wishes every child had the benefits of home ed that her DC have.

Before leaving mainstream education, teachers informed her that her 12 year old’s reading age was several years below his age but she isn’t worried because she thinks schools are obsessed with arbitrary targets and she isn’t going to force him to read. There are also behavioural issues with some of her other DC (I stopped inviting her youngest over for play dates because of his behaviour in our house) but she put it all down to the school environment and won’t address any of it🤷🏽‍♀️

Not following influencers brings so much inner peace.
If you want to keep your sanity- so did I- why worry what others are doing?

Completely agree. Even worse is 'worldschooling' (ie an extended holiday) or 'flexischooling' which is basically an excuse to be able to take their kids on long weekends away during term time.

There's an influencer I follow (I only follow her because she's local to me and therefore does have some good recommendations for things to do with kids) who has been away abroad 3 times since September with her 'flexischooled' kids.

It's not these particularly that worry me, it's the ones that are taking their kids out of school because of all the anti school rhetoric they're being fed that schools can't keep their kids safe and how teachers have 'gone woke' it's the future of these kids I worry about

I mean I would love to be able to homeschool but the reality is I a) can't afford to and b) quite like the little bit of sanity I have left and c) I'm not so arrogant that I think I can undermine qualified teaching professionals with years of experience.

1. Home education is the usual term in this country - thus acknowledging the main responsibility of the parent to choose how to educate their child - at school or otherwise
2. You make assumptions about the arrogance of others whilst being entirely arrogant yourself about the skills,knowledge and intentions of others - in fact the most common professionals home educating are qualified teachers - because they have seen school from inside and don't want it for their children
3. 'You'd love to... but you'd lose your sanity' - so you don't have the capability or capacity to look after your own children and help them learn but you're happy to criticise those that can

The whole of your post says far more about you than home educators

For some people it works amazingly well. One if our friends is s gifted teacher, and her kids are doing well.
Another one is vocal about home schooling, but her kids do a full time online school with 5-8 hours of lessons every day.
3 others gave up after a couple of years, kids are back in school. 2 are doing great, one is incredibly behind (homeschooled until end of year 7)
Some others have kids with SENds and no choice

Where are they bragging? Get off social media. Or distance yourself if they are annoying you in real life.