This is exactly the point, unless you are happy with drastically reducing your childrens’ success in this plane of existence. School is about learning to survive and deal with the world and network with others. Those who learn these skills will not only be materially more successful, they will lead happier lives because they have a better grasp of how to live with others and will be better achieved to reach their goals and do something worthwhile.

I have yet to meet anyone who was homeschooled who weren’t behind everyone else in some respects. I myself didn’t learn how to rely on others and work in a team until I was a junior in college. And I am one of the more normal and successful people I know to have been homeschooled. If you homeschool your kids, you are choosing tradeoffs based on your beliefs, but you also may be irremediably handicapping them if they choose to do something in which the competition is always getting better. YMMV, but to me, it is tantamount to child abuse to so thoroughly put a kid behind in social development/skill acquisition/network development. A school with non-familial relations and large social groups is absolutely critical to complement quality academics — lacking either creates uncompetitive people in a cut-throat environment.

Signed,

Pursuing a PhD, homeschooled until the day I entered university, eventually learned to deal with the handicap.