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What homeschooler hasn't been told at some point that their kids “won't know how to deal with the real world,” and that they're bound to experience “culture shock”? Maybe those folks just need to experience some hang time with homeschoolers in action.rolleyes
Recently my son and a group of his buddies took a six hour road trip to watch the Wisconsin state high school basketball championships in Madison where one of our local high school teams was favored to win. They piled the van with 15-17 year olds, and included several dads. One dad, the driver, was the parent of the only public-schoolers in the bunch. I don't think he expected the homeschool crowd he was traveling with to be quite so—social.
After the trip, he told us how those homeschooled boys kept him totally entertained and a little amazed by their outgoing personalities. He said that they sang (and we're not talking hymns and campfire songs, but heavy metal Christian screamo), talked incessantly, chanted for more Mountain Dew (like they needed it), seemed to know people everywhere, and to top it off, when the dads came out of a convenience store, they discovered that the boys had jumped out of the van to change a lady's tire because she looked a little distressed.
“My poor public schooled kids have culture shock after going on that road trip with all those homeschoolers,” this dad told us later, laughing.
Quite a reversal from the norm that homeschoolers are prone to hear. 
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