Kids literally did make fun of me, and some even stopped being friends with me after learning I was an atheist. If you think nobody cares about that you probably grew up in a place that wasn’t as majorly religious as Utah or a lot of other US states. It may not matter to most people wherever you live, but a lot of people in a lot of places think less of atheists and treat them worse for it. Things seem better nowadays in some places, but at this point I’m afraid too many edgy right wing atheists were too obnoxious about stupid shit for society’s treatment of atheists to be taken seriously for a while. It’s still perfectly acceptable to mock someone for being an atheist, or say that we can’t appreciate nature or beauty or even have feelings, and if you say anything about it you’ll just be made fun of more.

I know a shit ton of US homeschooling is for shitty religious reasons, Idk the exact numbers but I know lots of kids do get shitty educations and social lives being homeschooled. More should be done to make sure parents actually have to be qualified to be decent teachers who won’t indoctrinate their children with anti-science or bigoted ideologies while failing to teach them important things. But in a lot of places it’s the schools that are pushing that onto kids, and a lot of schools are otherwise unable to accommodate for every kid. I can’t support banning homeschooling anywhere that has those problems, and even then it’s probably the best way for some kids to learn, assuming their parents are good teachers