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Originally Posted by MattyC
The problems tend to arise on the social end of the spectrum, not the intelligence end. If they don't get immersed with new people, in their own age group, and learn how to interact with them, how to make friends, what is/isn't OK in general society. Those things are either absent in homeschooling, or warped to the parents' experience. Not that the parents' experience is always bad, but it will almost always be outdated.
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I was concerned abut that as well, but my son still has his freinds and they hang out all the time, interact on social media, xbox, just like everyone else. I don't know many home schooled kids who don't have freinds outside the home, and the school system is still available for sports should a kid want to participate.
I do believe in the deep south/evangelical end of things you have these issues, and while I am a church goer I am really leary of the extremism that is out there and its pitfalls.