What does everyone think about homeschooling kids?

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The homeschooling experience depends on the parent and on the location and availability of extracurricular activities.

On the one hand, if you have motivated parents in a place where there are many home schooled students and various opportunities for their kids to interact in extracurricular situations, homeschooling can be a delightful and highly educational endeavor for student and parent.

On the other hand there are people who pull their students out of school because they're mad at the school system or for whatever reason, and then don't make their kids do anything during school, and the kids can become unmotivated and, even worse, despondent.

I was home schooled for most of my education and had chances to gain college credit in high school, participate in varsity basketball and Latin classes with my local home school co-op, and participate in the National Spelling Bee in 8th grade. I also was blessed with a mother who worked hard to plan my studies until I was old enough to plan them myself. Now I am a senior in nuclear engineering at a world-class university. Thus home schooling can work if given a properly motivated student and a devoted parent.

I have been in contact with home schooled students from families who didn't have these luxuries, and suffice to say their stories are quite different from mine. Thus, it all depends on the level of motivation of the student and parent.