I think it's so funny when people ask me, "How will your daughter have any friends if she doesn't go to school?" I ask them (innocently), "Oh. I thought school was for learning. Your kids go to school for making friends? Interesting. We do the friend thing outside of school — nights and weekends." It sort of leaves them without much to say. I mean, school IS for learning.

Not to knock public-schooled kids, because I know some who are true gems, but I marvel at how society-at-large can cry "socialization!" and then wring their hands at the prevailing mediocrity making its way from the campus to the workforce.

Too often, children in a public school setting aren't learning the kind of socialization that will allow them to become productive adults, but the kind that gets them invited into the right clique.
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~Erin

Since core lessons don’t typically take 6 hours to teach (like public schools), the student has even MORE time to interact with community groups, non-profit organizations, or whatever worthy social interests the student wants to pursue.

This gives the student opportunities to really build some notable accomplishments that would be tougher to achieve in a public school environment (You can just imagine this exchange from a public school student talking on the phone with her favorite charity, “What? A once-in-a-life-time series of charity events that starts at 10AM and lasts for the next 4 days? Sorry, but I don’t get out of school until 2:30PM”. Bummer).

In fact, if the social environment is designed right, the parent can BETTER prepare their students for college in this respect because college is all about interacting well with people across ALL age groups (like the real world) instead of being forced to interact 99% of the time with people within 1-4 years of the student’s actual age for 12 years of the public school student’s academic career.