Probably somewhere in between, but I’m somewhat annoyed at Dawn for assuming without data that it’s evil incarnate.
Dawn is far too intelligent to make a post like this without at least taking the time to see whether or not her assessment is fair. I will excuse it on the premise that she is clearly quite angered by what she’s seen of home schooling, but I hope that she will actually do the research she admits that she did not do, because she will find that there is an awful lot of good home schooling going on out there, including lots of opportunities (including, in some cases, sports teams that are accredited to play the public school teams!) for socialization.
I have gut reactions about things too, but I try to do enough research to feel that I’m on solid or at least semi-solid ground before I start ranting about them. There are plenty of people out there (mostly socialists, Democrats, environmentalists, Islamic terrorists, and anti-nuke types) who rant about things they know nothing about already. Let’s not add to the trend.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)