Interesting topic, it is important for children to interact with one another. At the end of the day though I would prefer it to be my own choice and not that of the state. I also believe that a child should have as much interaction with their mother and father during the early years.
I also don't think that home schooling or the public system has anything to do with how good or how bad the child turns out at the end of the day the child is the one who benefits from the education and it is up to them to decide what to do with it. That's the stand my parents took with me they left me to my own devices so long as I did my homework, my assignments and my tutoring work.
I've been taught in both public and private schools and I didn't feel either were any different. Of course the private school was a little more strict in terms of being late or leaving early or moving about during class hours, but other than that I thought they were the same.
Of course both schools I went to were small schools and the subjects I chose for my final years of high school were all the sciences which meant that the classes were smaller.
