FWIW folks, the homeschooled kids I have been in contact with have without exception excelled scholastically, with many of them well ahead of their peers. All take advantage of homeschooling co-ops to get a better breadth of expertise as well as for some socialization. That said, the ones I am familiar with have not really learned how to negotiate with their peers for whatever reason. Perhaps not enough time away from mom/dad so they don't learn to stand on their own? I dunno, but that is my observation. BF or was it Chromedome made a good point about religious reasons for doing the home schooling. Most if not all the homeschoolers I know are doing it for religious reasons and I think wind up shielding their kids too much from the real world. That is likely a big factor in the poor socialization I have noted. From the little I know about HP, I think she's aware of this and will carefully avoid keeping her D's too coddled in their learning. We don't do it because we need time away from the kids, and neither of us feel we'd be able to provide a sufficiently good education. We are sending ours to public school for k-5, then to the Catholic schools (which have a very good reputation here) after that, at considerable expense.
