I'm not going to try to respond to every criticism in that article and in some of the comments above, but suffice to say that I support both homeschooling, and, to a lesser extent, HSLDA. If anyone feels like asking questions I'll be happy to answer, but I'll make a couple short comments to deal with the hot button issues.

1) Homeschoolers, as a group, are not socially inept. Some are, but most aren't. Growing up, I was involved with lots of sports, church clubs, community clubs (boy scouts, for example), and so on. If you're willing to put some miles on your car, it's not the slightest bit difficult to get your kid as socialized as any other kid out there. Most homeschoolers are involved with homeschool support groups too, to different extents. Such groups generally involve meeting with a bunch of other families several days a week, for various educational pursuits. I've seen everything from museum trips, to formal classes taught by parents that are industry professionals (for example, I took high school chemistry from someone with a Ph.D in the field. She was the head of some local drug research lab or something). Point is, most homeschoolers are very social, you just never hear about them on the news is all.

2) Homeschoolers are well educated. Test scores prove this (they're usually higher for homeschoolers) so I won't argue the point much, but some people still think homeschoolers are dumber than the rest of them for some reason. It's very true that homeschoolers don't always follow as broad a curriculum as the schools, but that's because they can pick and choose, and tailor to their strengths. For example, I was lucky enough to grow interested in (and capable at) reading, at a very young age. I picked up spelling and grammar very naturally, and, as a result, I've never done any formal work in those areas. People look at that from the outside and think, "ah ha! You deficient homeschooler, you," but the truth is, I didn't study it because I didn't need to. Schools would have forced me to go through that crap right along with everyone else, at the speed of the dumbest retard in the class.

Anyway, that's enough typing. There's a lot to be said on the subject, but I don't hardly know where to begin, so I'll leave it alone unless someone actually asks.