"Based on my personal experience with five nieces and nephews who are being home schooled, this article is dead wrong. I don't know what's going to become of them when they get out into the real world. I view home schooling as an insanely risky experiment on the kids. They might as well be growing-up by themselves on a space station."
Please explain how a public school corresponds to the Real World. Let's see - they worship the God of Diversity, so yes, in some ways it prepares you for the wierdness of the 'real world'. Other than that, its an environment no better nor more mature than the kids there. For some unfortunate kids in bad schools (eg infected by gangs and drugs) it can be downright dangerous. Is that what you mean by 'real world'? Getting the other kids to introduce them to drugs and JD behavior in middle school?
Based on my experience with friends who have homeschooled their children, I see nothing deterimental in socialization and much positive in education from the experience. One friends kids went from homeschooling, then to public high school and to college, to careers in teaching and Government ... it served them well.
When my kids had problems with the neighborhood kids and their bullying, they learned how to stand up to them on their own terms.