The show followed three teenagers: a girl and two boys (all in different states). I like how it showed that homeschoolers have obstacles just like public schoolers do... they're just different.
It didn't really have much to do with socialization, because all of the kids had friends that they socialized with!
The girl (in Florida) had been homeschooling for one year, after she decided she didn't like going to a public school. During the show, it followed her troubles with studying for and taking the SATs, and then deciding on a college. She studied for the SATs and then took them and scored pretty low. She stated that everything that she knew for the test, she learned in public school... nothing she had learned while homeschooling helped her on the test. She wanted to go back to public school, but was tired of arguing with her parents about it so she stuck with homeschooling. (IMHO, she was just lazy.) She really wanted to go to a community college, but she was at odds with her mother because the mother had her heart set on her daughter attending a four year college.
One of the teenage boys has homeschooled for about three years. His sister was "jumped" after school one day and the mother felt like the public school system had failed to protect her so she pulled both children from school. The boy was doing well with homeschooling, but was getting lonely during the day since his sister was older and out of the house and his mom worked full time. After proving his case to his mom, the mom "ruled" that he could go to school part time and homeschool part time. I say "ruled" because they did a mock trial so the boy could state his case to his mom.
And the mom said he had to continue with part time homeschool because she already paid for his curriculum. So... he ended up taking four classes at the public school -- 2 classes per day on Tues. and Thurs. (I think). On the first day, he hated it. It was boring and he found out that he was doing more advanced work at home. He went home saying that he never wanted to go back. Mom made him go the second day. He had drama that day and loved his teacher so he decided to stick it out the rest of the semester. He ends up not continuing after that semester because of a personality difference with a teacher.
The other boy (in Louisiana, I believe) has been homeschooling his whole life for religious reasons. He also love football and was on a homeschool football team that his dad coached. His dad played football in college and the boy wanted to do the same. However, his homeschool football team did not have a good track record, so he was afraid he wouldn't be picked up by any recruiters for college football. By the end of the show, he still hadn't convinced his parents to let him attend public school just for football... they were still thinking about it. But they were also trying to raise money for the homeschool football team to try to bring more awareness to the team and perhaps get better players.
I thought it was a good show. The description that Lillian found was way off, IMHO. It didn't depict the teenagers as unsocialized freaks that were sitting around waiting for the Rapture!
