> Homeschooling your kids is one of the worst decisions a person can make. It encourages taking the easy way out, and only achieves making the child socially repressed. Bad idea.

It would be interesting to know what you actually mean by this.

In terms of "encouraging taking the easy way out", surely homeschooling your children is more difficult than simply packing them off to school? Or do you mean that homeschooled children can invariably get away with the minimum neccessary work, which would surely depend on the parents?

As for "[it] only achieves making the child socially repressed", this seems like rather a sweeping statement; many people are homeschooled and come out of the experience well-adjusted human beings. Equally, any number of people have been psychologically scarred for life by the traditional school system. But what worries me most about that statement is the word "only" - it implies that homeschooling can not achieve such effects as educating the subject. Is this truely what you meant?

For the record, I was not homeschooled, and I think that traditional schools are generally (but not absolutely) the best available framework for education. But I don't believe that your statements are well thought out, or supported. If you can provide reasoning for your arguments I will be able to take them more seriously.