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Good question.
Will they not face opposing philosophies and ideals eventually? I would rather that happen while they are still at home with me as opposed to some College campus. I want my children equipped with the ability to debate and debunk all BS they may run into.
As an example—my oldest daughter will be voting in this next election. She wants to start a club at school for other teens who will also be voting. At first, there was NO interest—save a few kids. She has been harping about it so much that slowly, kids are learning, for the first time btw, that they are the future leaders. (She’s a helluva lot more optimistic about that than I am.) The point to this is, she gets it.
Take for instance their schools PDA policy. Kissing and such was strictly forbidden until one day it happened to be two boys doing it. When the hall monitor disciplined the two, they used “civil rights” and “discrimination” (grrrr) as an argument. Now practically no PDA is enforced. You may think, “what kind of HS-ing parent would subject their kids to that?” However, I see a golden opportunity to discuss with my teens the real perils of “tolerance.” Not to mention the real definition of Civil Liberties and discrimination. It’s out there and they are going to see it one day or another.
My Grandmother says I am raising Warriors—heheheh—maybe I am.

However, I see a golden opportunity to discuss with my teens the real perils of “tolerance.”

I graduated from home school and then went on to college etc. I found I was much more able to articulate and defend my views than most of my peers. Most of the formation of those views and reason and logic to defend them occurs in that age 13-18 range. My kids will not spend that time getting indoctrinated. Growing up I heard time and time again of homeschool parents sending their kids off to public school as soon as they hit highschool. Most of the kids I know that did that all agreed that academically it was a waste of time.

As for facing opposing philosophies. I did that at home by studying. When I actually started meeting people with leftist views I was better able to explain the reasoning behind them than they were. By the time I was in college I was able to see the bias from miles away and I knew enough to avoid most of it entirely.

I a glad to hear it seems to be going ok for your kids. Based on my experience there is no way my kids will be exposed to a public highschool. If I think they need more exposure opposing views I will send them to a debate camp.

I am glad I didn't get sent to public school for high school. I started taking classes at our local community college at 15; by the time I was 18, I had graduated their two year computer science program and was accepted at a four year school.

I was exposed to opposing viewpoints from an early age. High school students are not exactly the best source of intelligent debate. And I don't want my future kids exposed to the student-teacher relationship as it exists in public schools. In college, the atmosphere is much more of a senior academic imparting facts on a narrow band of knowledge (at least, it should be; many classes don't live up to this). In primary and secondary education, the relationship is much more dictatorial. It's the difference between being in a class because presumably you want to be (or it's required for your major) and because the government is forcing you to be there. The teachers know the difference, even subconsciously, and the whole atmosphere is not something I'd want for my kids.