John Oliver took on the unregulated legal landscape of homeschooling in the US on Last Week Tonight, as more and more children are taught outside of formal schools. The US homeschooling community is “much broader than just rightwing parents afraid of hypothetical third-grade lube demonstrations”, he started – one estimate has 2 million children homeschooled in the US for reasons from social or health issues to fears of school safety to Black families avoiding whitewashed curricula. “The ceiling of how good homeschooling can be is admittedly very high,” Oliver explained, “but the floor of how bad it can get is...