throwaway_hs

This is basically verbatim the logic that denied me a childhood, just time-shifted a bit. Your kids may not thank you for it.

I think your responses have made my point way more eloquently than I could do myself, so I guess I'll leave it here.

If that's what their friends are talking about over the lunch table, then absolutely. Or, do you let your taste in music dictate your kids' social horizons?

Throwaway for obvious reasons. I'd caution you against getting too smug about this outlook.

> Socialization is still a concern. But socialize your children to adult society. They don't need to be socialized to public school society.

I was homeschooled and my parents explicitly went for this approach. It's a great way of turning out a materially successful miserable loner; perfect adult-pleasers who've never had real friends. You may think you're only cutting them off from bullying or emojispeak or whatever, but what you're really eliminating are opportunities to learn the dynamics of peer relationships. And no, socialization with other homeschooled kids doesn't count.

Parents tend to vastly underestimate the importance of cultural fluency in the formation of peer relationships, and I think that's a tragic detriment to a lot of kids, especially the ones (like me) who internalize the sort of bullshit elitist attitudes that often inform non religious decisions to homeschool. And yes - my parents weren't religious and were highly educated on all the trendiest homeschooling topics.

I'm obviously fairly steamed about this and deeply personally biased, so take my words with a grain of salt. This isn't intended as a personal attack in any sense.