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If you have ever met a homeschooled child you wouldn’t want your child to be homeschooled unless you were apart of a cult or a pedophile. They are amongst the weirdest people I have ever met, right up there with people who follow any form of organized religion or part of the Freemasons, etc.
If you want your child to have no social skills and fail at life homeschool them.
Yeah, a lot of people here misunderstand what "socialization" means. They think it means being popular or literally just having conversations with people.
It's much bigger than that. It's about learning the world, society, norms, etc. You learn how to deal with strangers, how to talk to friends, to mean people, nice people, quiet people. You learn the norms of group dynamics, of authority figures, peers, male-female interactions and so on.
Depriving your child of all this is pretty irresponsible.