It seems like they are cutting as much symbolism as they can out of the shots they decide to keep in the show but every other episode feels like " We’re a family with 9 kids and everyone is homeschooled. Oh yeah and we just happen to be active in our church too."
Like, no shit you’re active in the church… Normal people do not have a quiver full of isolated kids like that. It’s not normal or healthy.
Families that large almost always parentify the older children, thus robbing them of their own childhood.
Also, as somebody who has had to teach teenagers who had previously been “home schooled”… It’s rough. They are usually not schooled at all. I’m talking 16- and 17-year-olds with a third grade reading level and a first grade math level. I wish I were exaggerating.