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I wish we could. We have the possibility, but i have no idea where to start teaching school material.

And of course I'm terrified of the social aspect.

Aren't there essentially School-Material-As-A-Service companies that provide all the stuff to you? I cannot imagine that every homeschooling parent starts building their own study plans and comes up with their own teaching concepts etc.

Regarding the social aspect, do you mean your children not getting enough social interaction with other children of the same age, or how home schooling is viewed socially?

> School-Material-As-A-Service

I laughed out loud! This is a great term! And yes, these absolutely exist and are more popular now than ever!

Good to know, thank you, worth exploring!

For a start, try searching for "homeschooling resources". My sister homeschooled her children for a time until it became too difficult for her as a single parent. Even then, there were many resources for interested parents; now, with the Internet, it's easier to find help and other homeschooling families online.

You can enroll your children in any extracurricular activity, such as sports and arts and it will cover the social aspect.

Not 100% confident in this. In a classroom you all face the same challenges (this bad teacher, the test being hard etc.) so it develops comradery, each other helps. Yeah, there is also bad stuff, but it's an experience that I don't know if sports alone can deliver (the amount of time you spend together in school is way higher).

What you want them to experience bullying and all the dysfunction of large schools?

Put them in a homeschool pod.

Everyone says this, but do actual studies that show homeschooled children have worse outcomes socially exist?

Anecdotal evidence only goes so far, but I knew 3 or 4 homeschool kids when I was growing up, and I feel like there's an answer in the fact that we never learned their names and always called them "one of those homeschool kids"

That said, on the other hand multiple people I knew from high school have since overdosed. So there's a spectrum no matter what you do.

Inviting new people into your friend group is as much a learned social skill as "putting yourself out there" is. I don't mean this too harshly - you were just kids, after all - but I would posit that the fact that your friend group never bothered to learn their names says a bit more about your friend group's socialization skills than it does about the homeschooling kids'.

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