Yes, in B.C. we are fortunate to have legal recognition of homeschooling. The 1989 School Act states that parents who choose to school their children at home are required to register the child as a homeschooler at either their local public school, through correspondence or at an independent school of their choice. Legally, it is the parents' responsibility to provide the child with an educational program. Research findings indicate that children's levels of academic standing are not influenced by the parents level of education. In modeling how you learn and do things in life, you are the natural learning guides for your children.
Homeschooled children are characteristically very well 'socialized'.
The nature of schooling as a heirarchy of coercive relationships extends to peer relationships - dominating the nature of relationships towards compeditive and dominator styles. It is a modern phenomenon that children and adults remain separate in their lives and activities and that socializing happens within the walls of a school with thirty other people all the same age. Most communities have homeschooling support groups that get together for meetings, social gatherings and field trips. Entrance requirements transform and adapt as society's changing population evolves. Homeschoolers have begun to be a preferred type of student for these reasons.