Great post. I would add that "being socialized" is not just being in a crowd with other not-yet-socialized children. Unless children are exposed to a range of people, and make friends outside their age segregated, leader figure controlled, sit down and shut up schooling, they are not learning proper social behaviors. Homeschooling allows children to be exposed to social interactions with a wide range of children, adults, and family members for more than just the 15 minutes after school with people in their "class" (isn't that a scary word?).

I've reposted this in the new homeschool-trail and recommend using the #homeschool tag for similar articles. Voted and resteemed.