I see you're that you're a little bit angry, and defensive. Please forgive my 'chip-on-the-shoulder' attitude, I don't wish to offend. Perhaps we are both a little arrogant? When you say you were educated in Europe, where in Europe? Were you native-born and raised in that country, or in the USA?

Empathy is not about enabling poor judgment, or victimhood.

You have misread my comment. You seem to discount the moral compass argument? Your animus is misdirected toward me, and the home-school movement, when it should be directed at the Statist-Socialist expropriation of America's Public-Schools,.... government-intrusion,.. DNC-NEA-Teacher's Union--the largest Union in the US, collusion & graft,.. and agencies like the ED (Dept. of Education) with it's John Dewey philosophy.

You seem to say that book-knowledge 'alone' solves the problem, brings enlightenment, prosperity, and development/growth to humanity, ... wholeness to the individual and society? It's important.

But without moral-wisdom and Biblical truth, that approach is a fools-errand touted by Leftist-Statists for two centuries,.. seeding much Darwin-Hegel-Marx based destruction of humanity.

That knowledge-sans-morality philosophy is closer to a Leftist (Statist-Socialist-Marxist-Communist/Fascist) ethos, than of an Individual-Liberty ethos?

Maybe you have conflated much of what is actually 'cultural-Marxism' (the Woke---DEI, CRT agenda) into what you deem as lack of (or right) education. There is some truth in what you say about meritocracy, as well as sound-science in physical-sciences being undermined and usurped by deceitful 'indoctrinations' of Leftist 'Social-Engineering', and politically-acceptable speech & thought.

Though real science and truthful textbooks are necessary, these constructs will not be disassembled by changing the content of textbooks alone.

Those who are choosing the textbooks must also be considered. What they believe matters. And here is where we come back to the moral-compass dilemma? Which is the problem you fail to acknowledge, and which Home-Schooling addresses more directly, by leaving whatever 'social engineering' is to be done, to be left to the parent.

Does that make you nervous?