Irony!Not many smart people around these days.To stupid people smart people seem like oddballs. The reverse is also true.How were they with kids? Oddballs I bet.And yet somehow homeschooled kids kick ass on virtually every measure. For the record I homeschooled my older son. All the homeschooled kids I ever met, even where their parents were hardly intellects, were polite and could interact well with adults.I don't believe liberal parents should be forced to make their children attend conservative public schools in red states and vice versa.
Home schooling is great if you want to raise a child with no exposure to any other ideas than your own,
Most people do not have the capability to home school because their own education is lacking or it is not feasible because of work schedules, etc.
If you can do it, great! If not, don't try to use it as a dodge for mandatory attendance laws or you will just be raising another idiot dependent on social services.