> peer pressure, bullying, drug & sex culture, and a middling career as a corporate drone?

Unschooling doesn’t make those disappear. I knew plenty of homeschooled kids that had sex and kids before 18, who drank and did drugs, and I’m pretty sure all of them are in middling careers as corporate drones.

While that is true, and there are always exceptions to the rule, being older and more mature when you’re exposed to those things definitely helps.

So many of these kids are on-line, like, a lot… there is no world where they are any more or less mature when they encounter these things.

Unschooling is how you become a grandma at 36 like congressperson boebert.

I don't think this will be a popular opinion, but IMHO learning how to deal with those things is a valuable thing that schooling provides.

There will be plenty of peer pressure, bullying, drug and sex culture in their adult life, unless they are going straight from unschooling to off-grid subsistence farming.

Weird as it sounds, the earlier you come in contact with many human pathologies the better.

You might not want to be a corporate drone, being socialized differently to almost everyone is just another extreme.

Socializing is fine, but school just seems about the worst possible expression of it.

Depends. Out of five schools I went to, one was crap. Schools also cycle between getting core groups of people who care, becoming good, getting reputation for being good and attracting people who don't care and stopping being good.

Still, I'd say there's way more consistency between schools than between unorthodox parents.

Bullying is _much_ worse in school than in your later life in my experience. Yes, you can still get terrible people that gang up on someone in an office, but it's much less common than in school.

Most people who are behaving like sociopaths in middle school appear to grow out of it and lead normal lives.

These kinds of arguments come up a lot when it comes to homeschooling. But would anyone follow the same logic when picking a school? There are certainly nice schools that don't have too many of these problems. Are these bad choices then? Should one find the most ghetto public school? If your country has only nice schools, how about sending your kids to a rougher country?

The school should match your future life. If you expect your kids to be sheltered for the rest of their lives, go ahead and homeschool.