<p>Poor kid. There is DEFINITELY something else going on there. That is not just being "homeschooled" and leave it to the young public high schoolers out there to chalk it up to being that. The huge prejudice against people who are different is a major factor in people being homeschooled. Not to mention that within our world's past most kids were pretty much homeschooled. So was everyone who wasn't formally educated back then weird? </p>
<p>Very self-centered view but I'm not surprised.</p>
<p>Being homeschooled does NOT make a kid socially inept. As I said above, I have one son who is not the most socially adept person, although he does just fine now--is working fulltime and has plenty of friends. His social skills problem is due to his Tourette's and such, not to being homeschooled. Do you really think he would be better had he been subjected to years of teasing in the schools before the doctors diagnosed his problem?</p>
<p>However, my other son is the most social kid you could ever hope to meet. He can go to some event knowing no one, and end up with several friends by the end. As an example, when he was visiting colleges, deciding which to attend, he headed out alone to one college clear across the country with no place to stay for the night. Within a few hours, he had not only gotten to know a professor or two, but had found someone he had met a year before in his hometown and who gave him a place to stay that night, and he had gotten himself invited out for pizza with some other students. Socially inept? I don't think so.</p>