> Schooled kids get 8 hours a day with peers

As a parent, I have no say over who these “peers” are, how they treat my child, or what BS they try to push on them.

As someone who was surrounded by some pretty bad kids during High School I am very comfortable with my children not getting that experience.

    As someone who was surrounded by some pretty bad kids during High School I am very comfortable with my children not getting that experience.

Hey, that’s what all the other homeschool moms whose children don’t speak to them say too!

Its actually hilarious that in another comment you say 'Today is the greatest time in the history of our species to be alive', but yet you can't overcome the fear of sending your kids out in public.

Everyone is going to parent their kid their own way but is it even possible to protect your kid from hanging out with "bad kids"? I was fairly sheltered. Religious family, didnt have my own car, had to tell my parents where I was going when I left the house, lived outside of town farish from anywhere else but I still had plenty of opportunities to hang out with bad kids and do bad things. I had my own set of morals and those prevented me from doing anything TOO stupid in high school.

I know a decent number of people who came from homeschooled or religious families who went absolutely wild their first two years of college because they had been so sheltered growing up. This was at a Christian university where you had to live on campus for your first two years, drugs/booze were banned, and you couldnt have people of the opposite sex in your dorm rooms.

TLDR: eventually your kids will interact with "bad kids". What are they going to do then?