Weeelll... people homeschool for all sorts of reasons, and with all sorts of effects on the children. I'm sure you're a fabulous homeschooler, and there are lots of those both here and elsewhere. However, (a) some people homeschool for reasons and in ways which make me very angry, e.g. because they hold religious beliefs which cause them to want to prevent their children learning science or critical thinking, which I think is child abuse (b) concentrations of homeschoolers vary enough that it would be quite possible for someone to have met or heard of that kind and not to realise that there are other reasons to homeschool. So one explanation might be that people are making mistaken assumptions about what homeschooling is to you.
