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It seems to me that everyone on this thread has completely missed the point.

Every kid learns their base moral principles and behaviors from birth from their parents' (guardians')actions and teachings. By the time they are school-age, their morals should already be pretty secure.

It doesn't matter if little Johnny/Susie is going to be homeschooled or "institutionalized" in a public school- if the parents (or outside factors, I'll be generous) screw up the moral indoctrination, then the child will not be successful. Either homeschooling will enforce the bad behaviors, or public schooling will.

Bottom line: if the kid is messed up, it doesn't matter where he/she goes; he'll most likely end up messed up. Since most of the children in the country are schooled publicly, there are many more horror stories than from homeschooling.

If you are offered drugs or booze or anything of that nature, who says you have to accept? Again, going back to the basic principles that should have been installed at birth, is this morally wrong for me to do? Stand up for yourself.

All of those involved in such activities have made their own choice.

So you know, I am a rising Junior in High School. I am an extremely good student, I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, nor have I ever been offered them.

Thanks for the post, and you're right: the point you make hasn't been discussed.

With respect, I disagree with you. What you say about the importance of having a base in moral principles is largely true. But there's also the issue of opportunity. The simple truth, which you actually implicitly acknowledge in your post, is that you need an opportunity to be offered drugs, booze, or other vices in order to engage in bad behaviors. Children who are homeschooled just don't get the same exposure to those opportunities that children who go to the government schools do.

I'd ask you to think for a moment. At your school, if you wanted to say, use illegal drugs, would you know who to go to obtain those from? Would you know what group of peers you should be with if you wanted that information? I bet you do.