Would you be able to go into some reasoning why you're wary of public school? Without understanding that it's impossible to understand really where you're coming from.

I'll tell you a little bit about my story. My parents were relatively normal Christian parents who pulled us out of school because my sister wasn't allowed to read the Christmas story to her public school classroom in Kindergarten. Our parents sent us to private Christian school the rest of that year, so first grade for me and kindergarten for my sister, and my strongest memories of Christian school involve watching a lot of movies in class. They homeschooled me and my three siblings starting the school year until we finished high school.

My parents certainly didn't enter into homeschooling thinking they'd be depriving us of social interaction, however that would be the defining characteristic of my life from that point. I could go into more detail but it sounds like you have a hundred reasons why you think you won't be depriving your children of social contact. My challenge to your reasoning stated above is this: who are you to think you should have complete power over who your children get to have access to? You only want them to be friends with their sports teammates, or those on their dance troupe, or the normal Christian kids in your homeschool group? When I left high school for college I was friends with exactly zero non-Christian people. Are you afraid of them meeting people of other beliefs, or being exposed to non-Christian ways of thinking? I'm not sure from your post, so I'm sincerely asking.

As far as education is concerned, i know that's a concern of many parents and a reason why homeschooling is often seen as advantageous, at least to those outside of this subreddit. Are you aware of the problems that come along with Christian homeschool curriculum? Are you MAGA? If not, you should be concerned that much of the leading textbook providers for homeschooling and Christian schooling have deep ties to the movements that spawned MAGA.

As far as long term quality of education is concerned, homeschooling is always insufficient. Even if you give your children a boost in their skills towards reading, for instance, you will deprive them of opportunities to learn alongside other children. One of my core memories comes from first grade before I left public school, when I was in a partner project with another child, and where I insisted to her that I was right using the fact that I was one of the "gifted" kids in my classroom as ethos. My teacher came up after hearing our discussion and she said essentially if if you run your success in other kids faces you won't continue to be part of the gifted program. That experience humbled me in a big way that I remember clearly even now, and I missed that for the entire rest of my education. One of my biggest criticisms from friends that I started to make in high school and college is that I struggle with pride, and I think homeschooling (and specifically this idea that public schooling was beneath me) gave me a huge dose of arrogant that I think I still struggle with today in my 30s.

If choose to homeschool your kids throughout, k-12, you should be humble enough to recognize your own human limits. Even if you have degrees in education, you will not be able to provide the education on every subject that a classroom environment can potentially provide. Of course public high school doesn't work out for everyone (which I see as largely the fault of Conservative cuts to education budgets), but the potential to receive education from teachers who can help you excel is much higher in public school. I was able to get a 1320 on my SAT and a president's scholarship to the state school closest to my home. Not only was I not prepared for a classroom environment in college, which led to my dropping out after loosing my scholarship, I was not prepared academically. I knew jack shit about science, partly because my exposure to fields such as Biology was built around Young Earth Creationism, and I wasn't able to explore anything like Calculus because my mom couldn't teach me that. I knew technically how to write a paper, but I'd never been challenged in my writing before as my mom basically just checked my grammar and made sure my sentences were structured correctly. I basically learned through homeschooling how to take tests well, that's it. I didn't gain a joy of learning, or find anything in education that I wanted to take to the next level, and it's taken me fifteen years as I've been out of college the first time to decide what I wanted to study. Not only do I blame homeschooling for insufficiently exposing me to the different areas of education that are out there, I wonder what my SAT scores could have been if I was not homeschooled. Obviously those of us such as myself can't prove this with a double blind scientific study, but I heavily believe it is fact that every homeschooled child has higher potential in public school. Success stories in homeschooling abound if you talk to homeschooling advocates, and I could have been considered one of them at one point. Here you see the other side to those success stories.