[quote=walterwhite]My kids are extraordinarily well socialized homeschoolers. I also believe with obviously no evidence that they are closer to one another than they wouldve been had they prison schooled.[/quote]
We had our eldest attend kindergarten the first year (because my DH was adamantly opposed to homeschooling at the time), and there was a marked difference in the way she interacted with her siblings and other different-aged kids outside of school. She was reading independently before going to school, and loved reading for pleasure. She was happy and well-adjusted, and got along with people of all ages. As soon as she went to school, she stopped reading for pleasure, and stopped asking all the wonderful questions she used to ask before going to school. During school vacations, she would start to become herself again (happy, curious, and sociable), but when school started back up, she would become an angry, withdrawn kid. It was so sad, and the decision to homeschool was the easiest decision we’ve ever made. Her teacher was the one who actually helped me convince my DH to homeschool, because it was obvious that school wasn’t giving her anything positive at all — not socially, not academically, nothing.
Again, everyone is different, but that was our experience.
