The home-schooled kids I know
do indeed lack essential social skills from not having grown up around people their age, and when they did eventually try to join schools they were met with derision from their peers for precisely this reason. Santas may raise intelligent kids, but without social skills they won't get very far, even in adult life. Social experience early on prepares you for eventualities such as bullying - learning to deal with them, I would argue, is a necessary part of life in a human society.
(idle insomniac enjoys listening to Sigur Rós at stupid hours, Mon 18 May 2009, 13:02, 1 reply)

I guess it depends
on how you approach home schooling. Do you just take your kids out of school (or not put them in in the first place) and teach them the expected curriculum or do you take full advantage of the home schooling support networks that exist? I would think you'd be doing your kids a disservice if you took the first option and it sounds like what the parents of the home schooled kids you know may have done.
( SteamedCleaner, Tue 19 May 2009, 3:02, closed)