[A. Pole]

I don't know what's going to become of them when they get out into the real world. I view home schooling as an insanely risky experiment on the kids.

You are confusing the modern school environment with the real world. It is the modern school which is "an insanely risky experiment on the kids" and we have seen the results.

I see an analogy with TV, I do not have one and couple of my friends were worried about me. They said that without TV, I do not have contact with the reality. Poor guys think that their TV is a window into the real world.

[Ironclad]

I've got two very accomplished kids who graduated with honors from excellent universities, are now productively employed, and they did just fine in a (admittedly highly-rated, suburban, one high school) public school system. They even watched TV. I've seen the results of home schooling up close, and it's not a pretty sight. The kids know a lot more than their peers, but, to make a long story very short, they have close to zero communication skills. I don't even want to get started on other deficiencies because it depresses me to think about it, much less write about it.

[WOSG]

"I see an analogy with TV, I do not have one and couple of my friends were worried about me. They said that without TV, I do not have contact with the reality. Poor guys think that their TV is a window into the real world."

You could try to get them to read 'Farenheit 451' to help them understand ... but I suspect they may have forgotten what reading is.(*) The "post-literate nation" lives. :-/

(*) ANd I have to admit - saw the movie, never read the book.