Yeah, public schools are so great for "socialization". There's clique-forming, bullying, competition for wearing the latest fads, peer pressure for sex and drugs, and so on. Not too say it's all bad, but I don't for the most part have fond memories of my school days and the "socialization" I received there.
What is it somebody said . . . to socialize your kid as he would be in public schools, drag him into the bathroom, beat him up, dunk his head in the john, and steal his lunch money!
Yeah, we used to get the "socalization" thing thrown in our faces all the time.
Most of what goes on in public schools (and a good many private ones, too) isn't socialization, it's what I call "being absorbed into the mob".
My 4 (former) homeschool kids have social skills that have made them favorites with their teachers and classmates.
That "socialization" argument is like throwing your gun at the enemy when you have no more bullets left.
GSD