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As for this fellow's arguments, they are straw men (take the socialization riff for example. I have never heard a homeschooler argue "forget it!" Scouts, church, and athletic activities provide ample opportunities for socialization.)

*So, Father, Mother, and children are not "socialising" according to this broom-pusher.

Of course they are, but that's not what the janitor ('scuse me - "chief custodian" ) meant. He was talking about learning to communicate with the world outside the family.

And homeschoolers have ample opportunities to do that.

Case in point: someone (probably a member of the teachers' union) introduced a bill in the GA General Assembly to regulate homeschooling rather extensively. It probably had no chance of passing, but numbers of homeschool families came down to the Dome to argue against it. They brought their well-groomed, mannerly, polite, well-spoken children . . . it was most impressive to see them in the halls and especially in the lunchroom, where their table manners made the older ones among us imagine that we were back in the 1950s . . . pre-hippie and indulgent parent days.

I'm sure that they were on their best behavior, and that all the bratty homeschooled children were in chains in basements all across Georgia, but still . . .