We are in our fourth year of homeschooling and wouldn't change a thing. If my kids were in regular school I wouldn't see them hardly at all. It also affords the luxury of being able to go places easier and not worrying about a normal school schedule. School just happens to be where you are. Its great for an airline pilots schedule.

As far as social skills go, as long as you don't lock them in the house and keep them involved sports, church, etc. they'll get all they need socially. As for the claims of homeschoolers being half crazy, how many times have you heard of someone in a homeschool going postal in all sorts of ways. And maybe the kids act like loners not because they don't want to be apart of a group, but because the group is the one with "we're above you attitude".

Just a thought.

JC Dude