Phantom Warrior wrote: "Socialization and growing up. I think there is something to be said for sending kids to high school. At some point you have to release them into the real world. Better to give them a few years while they are still living at home than to send them off to the college drugs and alcohol and sex scene at the same time that they are adjusting to school with other kids AND living away from home."
Bingo! There was a similar thread on THR not too long ago, and I argued a similar point.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=119524 (looks like you'll have to cut and paste to get it).
Anyway, while not homeschooled, I was quite sheltered as a kid growing up abroad and in a strict religious school. I do believe that it would have been far too much of a shock to go from that environment to college without a bit of "field training." My study habits and love of learning were sufficiently ingrained so that the silly academic standards in the public high school were not too damaging. Sure, high school was a joke from the work standpoint. It was plenty challenging from the coping standpoint...
