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Well I don't think it is the schools whole responsibility to teach. 90% should be in the home but going to school and interacting with others is needed.

To socialize your child with too many young felons and other descendents of collectivism is abuse.
Well isn't that just preparation for the future? Felons? Don't you see them every day? Shouldn't we teach our children how to handle these circumstances before they get thrown into the world?

Wow. Your rationale just went off the deep end. I can guarantee you I don't see a felon every day. Social problems breed far more swiftly in an uncontrolled group of children (public school,) than in a closely supervised educational environment (home school) where social interaction is planned and scrutinized. People have this problem nowadays thinking that their fifteen year old is an adult.

"Well I don't think it is the schools whole responsibility to teach. 90% should be in the home..."

We know that many teachers have such a wish, but it is an unrealistic fantasy (as is most of the fiction they deliver). But how can 90 percent of a child's learning happen in the home, when they spend most of their daylight hours in school buildings? Thirty hours per week for nine months of each year is more than enough time for formal instruction to children. And they shouldn't be taught, for example, that it is heroic for a child to burn down a new restaurant to save "ground owls" (one story that is read to many public school children between ages 10 and 12).

Mikey, I take issue with your idea that socializing with felons is preparation for the future. Generally, we all associate with people we feel comfortable with. I pick and choose my friends based on their CHARACTER. Occasionally, I run into a weenie here and there. Heck, we have rude and selfish neighbors. We have to figure out how to live peacefully with them. I have worked with people that I don't care for. However, the kinds of inerrant behavior that children have to deal with in public education institutions are quite different. Usually, the behavioral misfits are shuffled along and the behavior is tolerated by the school system. The rest of the kids are trapped with these hoodlums. My neighbor's child was bullied all last year and you have no idea how the system PROTECTS the bullies. I know that most of the homeschooling parents that I have known take great pains to have their children involved in activities where they "interact" with all types of different people. I think there has also been a survey that says that homeschooled children are more likely to be involved in charitable activities as well.