[Perndog]

Playground fights and childhood bonding at lunch time are hardly essentials for healthy development and social skills. Most of the really intelligent people I know were quite solitary as children.

And you really don't know what you're talking about if you think homeschoolers never interact with people. If you think homeschooled students are so socially deficient as to be unable to function in the real world, you're just retarded (there are exceptions but they are indeed EXCEPTIONS). They go to church. They participate in sports. They play with kids in the neighborhood. When they're a little older, they get jobs because they don't have to waste seven hours of every day in school and two more hours doing pointless busywork. What they do miss out on is high school culture with its shitty role models, idiotic teenage politics, trends, and everything else about it.

Oh yeah, they miss prom and homecoming, too. Woohoo. I know plenty of people who were *in* high school and skipped prom and homecoming and all those oh-so-important public school events.