Dear Homeschool Handwringers, My 13 year-old daughter is picked on and excluded by the other girls at school. She has begged me to homeschool her, to save her from this unpleasant situation, but I don't feel this is sufficiently good reason to take her out of school. If she were academically gifted, like most homeschoolers, I would consider it, but avoiding school for merely social reasons seems wrong. Yours Truly, Your Neighbor. Dear Neighbor, I agree. Saving your daughter from the daily degradation of clique-inflicted humiliation is a trite, trifling, frivolous, and flimsey reason to homeschool. The last thing we ...