Reply #4: A few. Most are pretty cool.

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My daughter has a friend whose parents are old artist/hippies, and they are home schooling her. She's quite well adjusted, very smart, and great around people. She says every year they have a "Back to No School" party where all the home schooled kids gather near a bus stop and laugh at the kids going back to school.

I know a few other kids, or mostly I know their parents, who are home schooling their kids, mostly for religious reasons. They are mixed. Some are as religious as their parents, some are rebelling against it--pretty much the same mix you'd see in school.

It's not a choice I'd make, but the idea that all home schoolers are growing up to be Norman Bates is overblown, from what I've seen.