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From personal experience, I would say optimizing for higher IQ at the cost of lower EQ to the extent that homeschooling makes possible is a very poor tradeoff - and it is also an extremely easy one to make.

> The oldest is 15, enjoys poetry, plays basketball competitively, likes to tinker with computers, reads history, does math, etc.

FWIW, that sounds like me at 15 and I regret having been homeschooled.

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At 15 I was learning how to binge drink, smoke weed competitively, disrupt class, and use my fists offensively/defensively.

So ya, I might have some advantage in the EQ department, but I regret having blown my youth in school.

Should also add that we don't "force" home education, we discuss it regularly and he's the primary decision maker in terms of what to do for high school.

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