Great piece by RS McCain

I was not home-schooled but have long been an advocate of it. I don't buy the absence of "socialization" in home-schooled kids because it is a false argument on two fronts: home-schooled children are more likely to be involved in any number of religious, civic and charitable organizations than students of the public schools, and when we speak of socialization, we need to examine what it is, exactly that we're talking about. 

Here is a wonderful piece from The Other McCain about his daughter, and within it you'll find yet another piece from a prominent LP. What is understandable from parents who resist homeschooling is the peer-pressure and sense of "they're kooks" from friends, and that's not a trivial concern. Yet, I would recommend any parent who is considering sending their children to a public school to get qualified as a substitute teacher and spend a few weeks in one, then see if this is really the kind of socialization you want your children exposed to:

Bragging on one's children is an especial joy when the kids are home-schooled, since Kennedy's achievements reflect credit on her mother, who spent seven years teaching our daughter at the kitchen table.

The success of home-schoolers is a refutation to the arrogance of a government education bureaucracy that is prone to assert, with the self-righteeous authority of official expertise, that my kids and theestimated 1.5 million other home-schooled students in America are being deprived of something useful. My only regret is that more children are not similarly deprived.