The following was taken from a rebuttal that Dr. Jay, of Apologia Ministries,
wrote to a woman who challenged him with the NAESP's following statements:

NAESP asks parents to consider that homeschooling may:

1 Deprive the child of important social experiences.
2. Isolate the student from other social/ethnic groups.
3. Deny students the full range of curriculum experiences and materials.
4. Education may be provided by non-certified and unqualified persons.
5.Create an additional burden on school administrators whose duties include the enforcement of compulsory school attendance laws.
6. Not permit effective assessment of academic standards of quality.
7. Violate health and safety standards, and
8.Not provide accurate diagnosis and planning for meeting the needs of
children of special talents, learning difficulties, and other
conditions requiring atypical educational programs

I am appalled at the articles you have posted regarding homeschooling.  They show an obvious ignorance of the subject and a clear contempt for something that you do not understand. 
For example, in the article

http://..../family/feature8.asp (Link no longer available.)

you imply that homeschooled students are academically behind their publicly-schooled counterparts.  According to EVERY scientific study I have found, quite the opposite is true. 
Homeschoolers are always found to be academically superior to both their publicly-schooled and privately-schooled peers.  Consider, for example, the following study:

http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8/

which is only one of hundreds that I have found. 

These studies are in agreement with my personal experience.  As a university professor at a major midwestern school, I experienced thousands of students.  By far the best students that I had were the homeschooled ones.  They were serious about learning; they could teach themselves; and they were far more likely to be able to think critically than any of their counterparts.  My experiences with homeschooled students at the university-level were the reason I got interested in homeschooling in the first place.

Your article also implies that homeschooled students are not well socialized.  Once again, the SCIENTIFIC studies disagree with that point.  Consider, for example,

J.W. Taylor's thesis, Self-Concept in Home-Schooling Children, available from UMI, order number DA862421

This study concludes that homeschooled students are much more socially mature than publicly-schooled students at the same age.

I truly wish you would educate yourself on an issue before you post an article about it.  You clearly have no independent knowledge of homeschooling and thus were fed the public school line about it.  I understand.  I was once ignorant about homeschooling just like
you are.  I was a university professor who assumed that the only way a child could learn was at school.  However, as I began to work with students who had been homeschooled, I saw that each homeschooled student with whom I worked was academically and socially superior to even the best publicly-schooled student with whom I worked.  Those experiences led me to the literature, where EVERY STUDY I FOUND indicated that homeschooled students ARE academically superior to both publicly-schooled and privately schooled students. These studies also showed that homeschooled students are more well-adjusted socially than their publicly-
schooled peers.

Please take the time to look at some of the articles I have listed below, so that next time you will not show your ignorance regarding this important issue.  Also, I would be happy to write an article for your website, educating your readers about the FACTS surrounding
homeschooling.

Sincerely,

Dr. Jay L. Wile, Ph.D.
jlwile@highschoolscience.com

Resources compiled by and Articles
written by Dr. Wile, Apologia Ministries  
Research that supports the claim that homeschoolers
do as well as or better than their schooled peers academically: