They said our kids would miss out on socialization. We said no problem: for the boy, we hired a bigger kid to beat him up and take his lunch money. For the girl, we hired a group of snotty girls to exclude her and make fun of her clothes.
That’s funny. I remember sitting at church waiting on my homeschooled son at cub scouts having a long discussion with a school teacher on why us homeschooling was so bad. This was about 25 years ago, so we were “strange.” We went through all the usual reasons and she had to agree that indeed he was learning and had friends (after all, he was right there in cub scouts). I finally had to acknowledge that she was right on one point - my son was not learning how to deal with bullies.