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Lighten up. If school were just about education, I’d have a lot of sympathy, but you’re missing a huge chunk of social development (as the lack of sense of humor in this post shows). I’ve known many home schooled kids in my day, and I’ve yet to meet one of them who wouldn’t have been better off with a real Public/Private school upbringing. How was your Prom?

Your post would be funny if it did not display such colossal bigotry. You clearly don't know what you are talking about. 99% of people I met when I told them I was homeschooled were surprised. There are literally millions of graduates of homeschool out in there. Many people have the same sort of bigotry. They seem to think homeschoolers are going to be all deprived and warped and are surprised to find they don't all come across as know-it-all spelling be champ robots. The really sad and funny people are the ones that think getting picked on in school is some sort of necessary social development. The people that claim that are always the bigger, taller, kids that probably were doing the picking on and not the social misfits who's highschool was a living hell.

Having been to dozens of homeschooling conventions and events I can safely say I have met THOUSANDS of homeschooled kids as well as graduates of homeschool. The tiny handful that might have been better off in public school were the complete and total brats who had no respect for their parents and hence were not learning at home. Studies have disproved your claim about 'socialization'. Feel free to look them up. You will not though, that much is obvious.