Public education is not a panacea. Quite the opposite, actually.

Nor is homeschooling.

Look. I'm not arguing against public schools. Wanna send your kids? Go right ahead. But for me and my family, we homeschool. And our kids are happy, educated, and well socialized. And since there are seven of them, they understand all about learning to play nicely and working through conflict.

Justifying your own decision by demonizing the alternative always raises a red flag for me. I'm sure that you teach your kids just fine.

The great experiment in public education is clearly a failure, but it's your right as a free citizen to continue to participate in the failed system if you wish.

All of the objections I've seen to homeschooling don't apply to my experience.

Anyway, about school shootings/terror: they're terrible, and it doesn't look like schools are going to become safe anytime soon. So you have to ask yourself if it's worth going.

Let me get this straight. You have seven, white, homeschool kids, in Japan. When you say they're socialized, do you mean with kids outside of your household, or just with each other? Cause cracker kids who don't go to school in a country as, at least, mildly xenophobic and demographically undiverse as Japan don't sound like they're exactly going to have a leg up on integrating into society when they turn 18.

Of course with kids outside of my house.

The public school system has done me pretty well so far. I guess you can think of it as a big bogeyman if you prefer that, though. Just remember that a large portion of society isn't qualified to teach, so public schools are a far better option. It's not exactly "simple" when your parents are nitwits.

Before you go on a rant about not telling you how to raise your kids, I'm not demonizing your decision to homeschool. You do whatever the **** you want.

I always do.

What age appropriate social skills are being imparted? Do you have a faux junior high dance?

I'm done hammering. You've got my opinion,

****, just one last shot.

Home schooling is so much more about the helicopter parents, than the poor kids who get stuck in the middle. let them breathe for their own good,

IMO.