Another thing I am not socially challenged and neither are any of my other home school friends I have until recently had a full time job ever since I was twelve years old and was the only kid in the neighborhood that could have a real conversation with an adult. And if you don't want your kid to work there is still football, baseball, shooting sports, and so on that you can do with your kids. Another note My grandfather was the lead maintenance and structural engineer at a nuclear power plant for 40 years in south carolina and he can't read, Again I believe it is about teaching them how to think and find information rather than telling them what to think.

ALL of my siblings were home schooled My older brother is a chemist, My older sister is a engineer for lockheed martin, My younger brother is on his way to being a computer technician, and my younger sister is 5 she can read and is enjoying her childhood.