"i've yet to meet a homeschooled child who isn't a perfect lady or gentleman and very poised and confident around peers and adults alike."
this seems to me to be a very important goal of true socializatin...and one that the schools are utterly incapable of producing, by design.
of course, if people were to come out of the system poised and confident and with ability to communicate to people outside of their peer group, they would not make very good members of The System....the don't become cogs in the great socialist machine....they are too "independent"....can't have that!!!!
Damn "The System!" Damn the "socialist machine!" Death to them both.