How come whenever the west does something it ' s bad . So eastern sexual expression is righteous while ours is not . <| sep |> I have no ragrets <| sep |> That is a whole different issue not having to do with the actual academics , which is what I was addressing so I don ' t know why you brought it up other than to be argumentative or just bash home school . Both paths have possible positives and negatives and you can ' t generalize in a way that is good or bad for everyone . Some kids will benefit from less social . Other kids get social through sports and other activities . I brought it up as a general point against homeschooling . And I don ' t think that any kid will benefit from having less social contact . We have that here too , but with homeschooling there are way more options than public schools can logistically offer . That might be true , but you can still offer a wide variety of subjects in public schools . But to do that , you probably have to reform the way the whole school system in America works . Way to take the absolute worse case scenario and apply it to everyone . You do realize the vast majority of people who home school are not any of those things , right ? Are you Ok with punishing the majority for the rare exception , because I am not . Yeah , I realize that most people are not crazy fanatics . But the fact still remains that there are many of them especially fundamentalist Christians and that they will probably always choose homeschooling because it ' s easier to indoctrinate your children that way . And I don ' t think that they should be given the chance . What the children of these people need is a way out , not another way of being trapped in a bad family situation . And since I don ' t see public or private schools as a bad thing , especially not for the children , I don ' t see it as punishment . And even if some parents perceive it as such it ' s not about them , it ' s about what ' s best for their children . Good for them , you know there are thousands of excellent schools in America as good or better than these schools , but we have thousands of more that need to improve too . FYI , there are 29 high schools in Finland . There are 23 , 000 public and 10 , 000 private high schools in America . So it really isn ' t fair to compare the average of one to the other . Of course there are huge differences and America faces different issues on a much larger scale . But there are some concepts in these school systems that can serve as an inspiration . It would be a good start if the US took some of the money they spend on the military and invest in education instead .