One odd presumption by the more aggressive homeschooling advocates here seems to be that going to school precludes learning anything from your parents.

A thread about disability aids was what brought that up. It occurred to me that my automatic response - fix it up yourself unless you know you're out of your depth - wasn't shared by everybody. But then I was brought up to fix things. My father was an architect and did a lot of home construction, my mother's father was a craftsman skilled at several trades who could do house wiring and metal-pipe plumbing. So I learned from them. But not JUST from them, as I had two years of formal lessons in woodwork and metalwork at school. I didn't have access to a lathe or a metal casting furnace at home, but a lot of the skills transferred.

Similarly what I was taught about literature and science at school helped me make sense of the books my parents had round the house.

Art and music were different: I had very litle art education at school, but there were a lot of books about it at home. I had a reasonable music education at school, but my parents weren't into it at all and I had to find my own way. For both it would have been better if school and home had not each been my sole resource.