In my experience (and granted the Bay Area has a fairly healthy home schooling community) is that there are plenty of opportunities for socializing which are not necessarily 'school'. One of the things we found for our daughters was Reikes Nature studies [1] (can't say enough good things about that program), activities at our church (that happen for all kids, home schooled or not) and get togethers with other kids who were part of the community.
Generally we found filling in for the 'good' part of school socializing wasn't a problem and missing out on the 'bad' part of school socializing was a benefit.
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In my experience (and granted the Bay Area has a fairly healthy home schooling community) is that there are plenty of opportunities for socializing which are not necessarily 'school'. One of the things we found for our daughters was Reikes Nature studies [1] (can't say enough good things about that program), activities at our church (that happen for all kids, home schooled or not) and get togethers with other kids who were part of the community.
Generally we found filling in for the 'good' part of school socializing wasn't a problem and missing out on the 'bad' part of school socializing was a benefit.
[1] http://riekes.org/nature-awareness/