[Porsche-O-Phile]

I'm not saying to raise kids in a vacuum, I'm just saying that using "social interaction" as an excuse to either disparage home schooling or to rationalize institutionalized "education" is disingenuous at best.

The skills of appropriate behavior are easy for kids/people to learn. We have a certain amount of social nature hard-wired into us so I think it tends to come fairly natural (unless a kid really is raised in a vacuum or something). I'd think that observing human interaction just when going out or spending time with family/friends will on most cases give a kid all the skill he or she will ever need in that area - enough to build on as needed later.