A good friend of mine was home schooled for part of his childhood because his dad was a park ranger and they lived on an island where there were no schools. That's a pretty reasonable situation to home school in I guess. I mean what else were they going to do? But he said once they were living somewhere where they sent him to a regular school, he and his brothers had kind of a hard time adjusting and he really felt like they missed out a lot on learning how to interact with variety of other people. I think people are really doing a disservice to their kids on that front if they home school them. I also think there's a pretty high probability of parents' overestimating their own skill at teaching, which is also problematic.
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