Home Schooling Questions: Economists vs. the Public, by Bryan Caplan

Questions non-economists ask when I tell them I'm homeschooling my sons:

1. What makes you think you're qualified to teach them?
2. Who are you to decide what your kids should study?
3. What about socialization?
4. How come you're not teaching [insert pet subject here]?
5. Won't this hurt your kids later in life?
6. Aren't you hurting your kids' development right now?
7. When will they interact with girls?
8. Isn't there more to life than academics?
9. Aren't you undermining social cohesion?
10. Why are you turning your kids into brainwashed freaks?

Questions economists ask when I tell them I'm homeschooling my sons:

1. Doesn't it take a lot of time?

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