Oh, but they will, Jen! They won't get to enjoy the benefits of being hounded by bullies, ridiculed by cliques, pressured into sex, exposed to drugs, tempted to binge drink, or otherwise subjected to incredible pressure to conform to a mediocre-at-best status quo.
And just think of all the colorful language they won't have the opportunity to learn. By way of compensation, you can teach them to curse in Latin. =]
In our house, it'll be Japanse they learn to curse in. Unfortunately that language does not have very strong curse words.
Honestly, and I'm sure I sound naive, I didn't know what pot smelled like until I was 21 and deduced that that was what the neighbor's apartment must be smelling of. I didn't drink until I was legal age (well, a couple half glasses of wine at home in the six months prior as my mom taught me some about wine). My husband was the first (and of course only) man I kissed let alone slept with and I didn't even get married until I was 23 so how's that for undersocialized?
I work in a field that has a higher than average, I believe, number of homeschooling parents. Engineer types seem to be more likely than the usual to homeschool. Probably because A. they can support a family and B. they remember being picked on, not taught anything, and generally loathing school. Regardless it's nice for the reaction to "I (am) was homeschooled" to have gone in my experience from "Is that legal" to "my crazy cousin does that" to "A family at church does that" to "Yeah, we're doing that".
Are you a comedy writer in your spare time. :^)