Homeschooling and Social Behavior

From the time I was old enough to go to school, I thought that every child in our neighborhood was going to be in my school. I soon found out that many of the children on our block were taught by either one parent or another at home. This confused me because, at the time, I did not understand what homeschooling was. My sister explained it to me once and referred to the kids as socially awkward, she was a few years older than I was, but I still did not understand. When I got to Northern and took the EPFE 201 class I learned the differences between the use of homeschooling and the social interactions of the children being home schooled. Many of the students on my class had someone they knew that was home schooled and often would describe them like my sister did when I was little, socially awkward. I thought that this was presumptuous to classify all home schooled kids this way since I knew a few people in the Music Building who were not socially awkward and were home schooled. Since that class I have met more people who were home schooled and have normal social networking skills. This idea that to be "normal" you must be sent through a traditional school system has often irritated me and caused many of my friends to become irritated as well. How do you feel about homeschooling children? Would you ever willingly home school a child? If a child cannot adapt to the structure of a traditional school, would you home school them or send them to another school?
~Emilie