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My family was mostly homeschooled and me and my siblings social groups were pretty much entirely homeschoolers as well. All the normally educated kids I knew were relatives or friends of friends.

There's a massive problem with oversight. I have a highschool diploma, but the process of getting it made it clear that, at least in the state I'm in, education is a top to bottom joke.

Socially speaking my siblings and some of my friends went to a summer camp for homeschoolers and the like every year, and for more than a decade, EVERY YEAR there's at least 1 new kid that's joined up for the first time that was being raised by some rural super conservative religious family from bumfuck nowhere where the next closest house is miles away, and those kids tend to have... Eye opening experiences there to say the least.

But I live in a city, so the families I've known that do it are pretty diverse. They're mostly liberal, but I've known a couple that're conservative and for the most part their kids have been the highest performers grades wise (they're usually pretty stuffy though).

Speaking from experience, there's a very big difference between conservative parents that're homeschooling their kids because the education system is dogshit (which is def true where I'm at) and the conservative parents that're "homeschooling" their kids as a thinly veiled excuse to indoctrinate them with all sorts of shit that wouldn't fly if anyone outside their bubble found out. Luckily most of those kids tend to mellow out real quick once they're let out into the real world for college and shit, but some stay locked in for most of their lives.

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Once I have children I plan on homeschooling them, at least up until highschool or so. Tutors can pick up the slack on subjects I'm not equipped to teach, plus there's lots of online resources as well. I'll tell you what, I may not have known that Hawaii is a state before the age of 26, but I've been able to do my own taxes and budgets since I was a tween, and the latter is far more useful than the former.