Not really, the real disaster is the lack of stimulation. I mean, unless for high-school students, everything that you learn will be re-taught eventually. I mi

Not really, the real disaster is the lack of stimulation. I mean, unless for high-school students, everything that you learn will be re-taught eventually. I missed half a year (well, 5 month) and didn't go over divisions, still the next year was fraction and honestly, i wasn't less prepared than my friends. I won't homeschool my kids, but if you do all the power to you. Ifyou don't go over the program and just stimulate them, as long as they go see/make some friends at clubs (music, sport, craftmanship, whatever) or stuff like that, they won't be that behind in highschool. If you are actually good and present enough to teach them STEM specifics, they can even be ahead (in my experience this is rare, but this might be skewed by the population of homeschooling parents that will actually send their kid in summer science camps). We need to stop thinking of school as a place of learning only. School should be stimulating, a place to get friends and to be in touch with knowledge.