Unsocialized Homeschooler

My son is at the age that compels people to ask if he is going to be attending preschool soon because "you have to get them socialized at this age".
Yeah, because putting together twenty plus toddlers will teach them great things.
Isn't this what parents are for? Barring, of course, extenuating circumstances.
A mother and her children getting together with another mother and her children do a far better job "socializin' the youngin's" than pre-school ever will. Mothers know what sin issues their children are dealing with and can instruct and discipline appropriately. At least they should be learning to be competent on the subject of their children.

The other question that comes up is what plans we have for our sons K-12 education. Growing up myself as an Unsocialized Homeschooler I have friends (shocker!) that all fall into the three main categories, so I'll make sure to offend with equality. Our response to each is generally thus:

-Private school, preferably.

-Homeschool, er...uh..ugh maaayybee?

-Government school? Cue crickets, wind dusted tumbleweed and a lone coyote howl... I hope not. Maybe waaay later?

But in answering those three questions the first response is often "Well, if you homeschool, how will you socialize your child? They have to be socialized, you know?" This is when I try hard not to laugh at them, pat them on the head and hand them a lollipop. It's not that it is an unnecessary question but that it is so ignorantly biased and insulting.  I've never been compelled to ask someone who is considering private school how they plan to keep their children from becoming snobby and insular. Nor have I asked someone considering public school how they plan to keep their child from wearing a trench coat, bringing a gun to school and slaying their entire classroom.

Simple observation can answer the socialization question. I can take 20 people I know, who are over the age of 22 and you wouldn't be able to tell how they were schooled. Most government schoolers make it out alive and without killing anyone. The private school snobbyness looses its shine, the awkward homeschooler is no longer awkward. And he probably would have been awkward at any school.
Schooling has little to do with your post-school social life. Parenting has everything to do with a childs in-school social life. Proper socialization and fighting snobbery is equally important for the government schooler, the private schooler and the homeschooler.

Easy stuff for me to say when it's all theory and my child hasn't started school yet.