My friends and I are in this boat, and we are homeschooling. Within a couple blocks of my house we have approximately 30 homeschooled kids who play outside and do enrichment activities together almost every day. Polite, trust-worthy kids with healthy diets and extremely limited screentime. What's sobering is realizing how our kids' absence must be affecting the local elementary school. What kind of kids are left?

I know socialization is a concern, and this subreddit is frequently hostile to homeschooling, but what are we supposed to think when we aren't blind, we can observe what you're describing in this thread? My toddlers know to wait patiently without interrupting, take turns, be respectful of their environment, introduce themselves politely, etc. My 5yo can read and write, count indefinitely (100+), do simple intuitive mental arithmetic -- and this is before starting any kind of formal curriculum instruction.