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Sure, but parents don't select a random subset of peers like school does. Do you think the presumably wealthy parents of homeschooled children will make sure their kids are interacting with poor families? Because those aren't going to be at the private extracurricular clubs.
Another false distinction. Wealthy parents go out of their way to live in catchment areas with other rich parents, specifically to curate who their kids interact with.
Government schools are not even a little bit random. They are for the families that live around them.
This is definitely true and the reality of my upbringing. My public school was often mocked by the other richer school districts.
I was often talked down upon due to my school district being so bad. Looking back it definitely was bad hahaha.
If you put your kid in public school, it's going to interact with poor families. If you homeschool it, it's not. I'm sorry but that's just really obvious to me, given my experience. I guess that's where we'll agree to disagree.
My main point is wealthy parents don't understand the value of their children interacting with poor people.
What's obvious to you is factually incorrect. Ask a realtor about whether school quality matters to parents. Wealthy parents choose wealthy neighborhoods where their kids go to school with other wealthy kids.
My dad taught at a poor school. All the kids there were from poor families. All the rich kids went to a different school.
My main point is wealthy parents don't understand the value of their children interacting with poor people.
That may be true, but they don't want that for their kids and they pay to avoid it.
I agree that parents have separated public schools into rich ones and poor ones; that's part of the problem I'm trying to describe. Wealthy parents want their kids around other wealthy families, not because it's a good idea, but because they don't understand social development.
But you're overgeneralizing. There are plenty of places in America where even the rich schools have some poor families.
Lots of homeschool parents socialize across class too, especially those who organize their social lives around a church.
You're presenting a false choice. There's no reason homeschooled kids can't spend time with their peers and they often do.